{"product_id":"chronicles-of-a-village-nguyen-thanh-hien-9780300276404","title":"Chronicles of a Village","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn incantatory poetic novel that interweaves the legends, tragedies, and histories of a village in Vietnam \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The book bursts with characters, poetry, philosophy, romance, violence, and struggle. . . . A dreamlike, original, strangely hopeful book.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At the foot of Mun Mountain in central Vietnam, a self-appointed scribe collects the stories of his neighbors--tales of love, nature, and war--and weaves them into a surrealist history of their farming community. In crystalline fragments resembling prose poems, the scribe eternalizes the vanishing beauty and tragic transformation of the village--its sacred forests, astonishing animals, mythical figures, and human lives nurtured by a profound love for soil and sky, as well as its catastrophes: ecological destruction, political purges, asphyxiating modernity, violence, and indoctrination in the name of progress. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nguyễn Thanh Hiện's \u003ci\u003eChronicles of a Village\u003c\/i\u003e, the writer's first work to be translated into English, is an elegy for a place and a people; a profound meditation on how history is created, destroyed, manipulated, and rewritten; and a tribute to the beauty and \"fatal historical disabilities of a land.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nguyen Thanh Hien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300276400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300276404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2024","brand":"Nguyen Thanh Hien","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44809983951103,"sku":"9780300276404","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a0ef4b2-cfb7-421a-b615-4f9007af963f.jpg?v=1707928012","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chronicles-of-a-village-nguyen-thanh-hien-9780300276404","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}