{"product_id":"nguyen-thanh-hien-chronicles-of-a-village-2024-paperback","title":"Nguyen Thanh Hien: Chronicles Of A Village [2024] paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn incantatory poetic novel that interweaves the legends, tragedies, and histories of a village in Vietnam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The book bursts with characters, poetry, philosophy, romance, violence, and struggle. . . . A dreamlike, original, strangely hopeful book.\"-\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Nguye n Thanh Hie n'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.\"","brand":"Hien, Nguyen Thanh \u0026 Nguyen-Hoang, Quyen","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53240469389651,"sku":"9780300276404","price":18.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/hien-nguyen-thanh-nguyen-hoang-quyen-nguyen-thanh-hien-chronicles-of-a-village-2024-paperback-9780300276404-1227207370.jpg?v=1773435816","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/nguyen-thanh-hien-chronicles-of-a-village-2024-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}