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No Man's Land : a Novel by Dương, Thu Hương;McPherson, Nina;Phan, Huy Đường is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><P><i>From Vietnam's most popular writer and famous dissident comes a mesmerizing novel about a tragic love triangle between characters whose destinies have been irrevocably altered by the absurdity of war.</i></P><P><I>No Man's Land</I> is set in a hamlet in the countryside of central Vietnam immediately following the end of the war in 1975, where a young woman, happily married to a successful farmer, comes home one day to find a throng of villagers assembled around her gate. She learns that her first husband, who reportedly died as a martyr and hero many years back, is in fact alive and has returned to claim her.</P> <P>Faced with immense pressure from the community and Party authorities, she dutifully agrees to leave her second husband and their son to live in a squalid shack with the veteran. This tragic twist of fate gives the novel a powerful narrative drive that makes it Huong's most accomplished work to date.</P> <P><i>Doung Thu Huong</i> was born in Vietnam in 1947. At the age of twenty, she led a Communist Youth Brigade sent to the front during the Vietnam War. A vocal advocate of human rights and democratic reform, Huong was expelled from the Communist Party in 1990 b

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Author

Dương, Thu Hương;McPherson, Nina;Phan, Huy Đường

Publisher

New York: Hyperion East

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781401366643

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.81 / 5 (135 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14