by Dương Thu Hương · SABINE WESPIESE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782848050393
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«Terre des oublis» is the novel by Dương Thu Hương, published in 2006 by Sabine Wespieser Éditeur in paperback (800 pages, in French).
Miên, a young Vietnamese woman, returns from a day in the forest and discovers that Bôn, her first husband, missing for fourteen years and presumed dead as a hero, has come back. Miên has remarried the landowner Hoan, whom she loves and with whom she has a son, but community pressure forces her to return to Bôn in postwar Vietnam.
Translated from the Vietnamese by Phan Huy Dương, the novel was originally published as «Chốn vắng» and received the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle in 2007.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in Vietnamese literature and the traces of war.
Dương Thu Hương is a Vietnammese author and political dissident.
