| Description |
1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations |
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| Summary |
Quan Barry's luminous fiction debut brings us the tumultuous history of modern Vietnam as experienced by a young girl born under mysterious circumstances a few years before the country's reunification, a child gifted with the otherworldly ability to hear the voices of the dead. At the peak of the war in Vietnam, a baby girl is born along the Song Ma River on the night of the full moon. This is Rabbit, who will journey away from her destroyed village with a makeshift family thrown together by war. Here is a Vietnam we've never encountered before: through Rabbit's inexplicable but radiant intuition, we are privy to an intimate version of history, from the days of French Indochina and the World War II rubber plantations through the chaos of postwar reunification. With its use of magical realism--Rabbit's ability to "hear "the dead--the novel reconstructs a turbulent historical period through a painterly human lens. This is the moving story of one woman's struggle to unearth the true history of Vietnam while simultaneously carving out a place for herself within it. From the Hardcover edition. |
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The tumultuous history of reunified Vietnam is experienced by a young girl born with the ability to hear the voices of the dead. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-270). |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Subject |
Families -- Vietnam -- Fiction.
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Psychic ability -- Fiction.
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Families. |
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Psychic ability. |
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Vietnam -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Vietnam. |
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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History.
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| Added Title |
She weeps each time you are born |
| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Barry, Quan. She weeps each time you're born New York : Pantheon Books, [2014] 9780307911773 (DLC) 2014006309 (OCoLC)878953249 |
| ISBN |
9780307911780 : $48.00 |
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0307911780 : $48.00 |
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