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The Mountains Sing

by Mai Phan Que Nguyen

A family story shaped by war and upheaval

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A family story shaped by war and upheaval

The Trần family’s history unfolds against the Việt Nam War and its aftermath. The supplied description begins with Trần Diệu Lan, born in 1920, fleeing her family farm with her six children during Land Reform as Communist government rose in the North. That starting point places family experience alongside sweeping political change, framing the novel as a multigenerational account of displacement and Vietnam’s turbulent history.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in multigenerational family fiction.
  • Readers seeking fiction set against the Việt Nam War and its aftermath.
  • Readers interested in Vietnamese cultural heritage and historical upheaval.

Themes

Family across generationsWar and its aftermathDisplacementPolitical upheavalVietnamese cultural heritage

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Book overview

This "moving and riveting" book shares a layered, epic, multigenerational story of the Vietnam war and its aftermath (Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Sympathizer)​

With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in H
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