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"Central Vietnam. 1975. A young peasant woman, happily married to a successful farmer, returns to her house in the countryside to find a thong of villagers assembled around her gate. She learns that her first husband - who reportedly died as a martyr and war hero many years earlier - is in fact alive and has returned to claim her. Faced with immense pressure from the community and the Party authorities, she agrees to leave her second husband and their son to live in a squalid shack with the veteran." This tragic twist of fate sets the stage for Duong Thu Huong's tale of three individuals whose destinies are inextricably linked and irrevocably altered by the absurdity of war. As the riveting story unfolds, each of the parties in this fateful love triangle struggles to reconcile personal happiness with traditional values of duty and selflessness. Together, these characters offer a devastating portrait of a people sacrificed on the altar of war and to a cult of heroism.
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Michael Miller
reviewed No Man's Land on October 07, 2013
No Man's Land
Just realized I forgot to write the review for this one.
A story of culture, beliefs and a moral dilemma. What would I do in a circumstance such as this one? Well for one, it probably would never arise and the choice would be clear, but in this case, the war, family expectations and the culture itself made the choice for her. It was one she did not want at all and to us, it would never happen.
This book gave me much to think about and at times I felt sorry for all the characters. They are all in such an untenable situation it is hard to imagine how they all would survive. Loved reading about the culture and in fact am now reading another book by this author Paradise of the Blind. She writes the roles of women very well.
My favorite part of this book was how she let the reader know exactly howMien feels about everything going on, everything that is expected of her. Torn between duty and love, how does one choose between them?
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