{"id":46474,"date":"2020-02-18T11:12:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T16:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46474"},"modified":"2020-03-31T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T19:05:18","slug":"the-mountains-sing-by-nguyen-phan-que-mai-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-mountains-sing-by-nguyen-phan-que-mai-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mountains Sing by Nguy\u1ec5n Phan Qu\u1ebf Mai [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46085\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/Mountains-Sing-Nguyen-Phan-Que-Mai-BookDragon-531x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/Mountains-Sing-Nguyen-Phan-Que-Mai-BookDragon-531x800.jpg 531w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/Mountains-Sing-Nguyen-Phan-Que-Mai-BookDragon.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/>A granddaughter and her grandmother take turns narrating: \u201cIf our stories survive, we will not die, even when our bodies are no longer here on this earth.\u201d What emerges is the ominous history of 20th-century Vi\u1ec7t Nam told through four generations of a single family.<\/p>\n<p>As a privileged 1930s teenager, Di\u1ec7u Lan has a bright future overshadowed by a fortune teller\u2019s prescient warning of \u201ca very hard life.\u201d The tragedies begin with her father\u2019s gruesome murder by invading Japanese; her mother, husband, and brother also suffer separate, brutal deaths. Di\u1ec7u Lan miraculously survives the mid-1940s famine of the Great Hunger and the savage 1950s Land Reform to raise her six children.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to the 1970s, when Di\u1ec7u Lan is again doing everything possible to keep a loved one alive, this time her only granddaughter, H\u01b0\u01a1ng, whose parents and uncles are missing at war. Some will return, almost unrecognizably damaged, to continuing conflicts even at home.<\/p>\n<p>Widely published in Vietnamese, poet, nonfiction writer, and translator Nguy\u1ec5n Phan Qu\u1ebf Mai&#8217;s first novel in English balances the unrelenting devastation of war with redemptive moments of surprising humanity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Mountains-Sing-Nguyn-Phan-Qu-Mai\/pid=9726024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, February 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A granddaughter and her grandmother take turns narrating: \u201cIf our stories survive, we will not die, even when our bodies are no longer here on this earth.\u201d What emerges is the ominous history of 20th-century Vi\u1ec7t Nam told through four generations of a single family&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,6535,136,139],"tags":[84,6608,6668,75,10,135,24,51,8923,8922,39,44,45],"class_list":["post-46474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-repost","category-southeast-asian","category-vietnamese","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-death","tag-family","tag-grandparents","tag-historical","tag-identity","tag-mountains-sing","tag-nguyen-phan-que-mai","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-siblings","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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