Two generations of Vietnamese women endure war, famine, and upheaval, clinging to family and hope across decades of turmoil.
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Two generations of Vietnamese women endure war, famine, and upheaval, clinging to family and hope across decades of turmoil.
THE BESTSELLING STORY OF TWO GENERATIONS OF WOMEN WHOSE LIVES ARE CHANGED FOREVER BY THE VIET NAM WAR 'An epic account of Viet Nam's painful 20th-century history, both vast in scope and intimate in its telling... Moving and riveting.' Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer Ha Noi, 1972. Hương and her grandmother, Trần Diệu Lan, cling to one another in their improvised shelter as American bombs fall around them. For Trần Diệu Lan, forced to flee the family farm with h...
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Wartime rape depicted; little consensual romantic or sexual content
Bombings, killings, torture, and on-page wartime deaths across decades
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Brief faith references; some religious bigotry depicted
No fantasy magic or witchcraft present
No occult or demonology content present
Land Reform, communism, and Vietnam War politics central to the story
Suicidal thoughts and suicide amid wartime trauma
Rape, torture, starvation, child death, and systemic wartime cruelty
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