Chronicles of A Village
  • Published: 5 October 2022
  • ISBN: 9789815017885
  • Imprint: PRH SEA
  • Format: Paperback
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

Chronicles of A Village

Buy from…
Amazon Booktopia Dymocks QBD Readings Your Bookstore Abbeys Boomerang Find local retailers Find local retailers Collins Fishpond Gleebooks Harry Hartog Kinokuniya Robinsons The Nile Mighty Ape

A fragmentary poetic novel that interweaves the legends, tragedies and histories of a tabulated village in modern-day Vietnam.

Chronicles of a Village is set in an anonymous Vietnamese village based on the author's personal memories. The surrealistic narrative touches on the country's pre-modern history, the colonial era and the onslaught of modernity that irreversibly affects the mountains, rivers, soil and memories of a wretched people. Written in vibrant fragments that resemble prose poems, the novel combines the author's melodious style of oral storytelling with historical micro-narratives and mythological elements. The book takes the reader through poetic and political landscapes teeming with ancient legends, love stories, marvellous nature, war tragedies and modern alienation, which constitute the beauty and 'the fatal historical disabilities of a land'.
  • Published: 5 October 2022
  • ISBN: 9789815017885
  • Imprint: PRH SEA
  • Format: Paperback
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

About the author

Nguyen Thanh Hien

Nguyen Thanh Hien was born in 1940 in Nam Tuong village, An Nhon district, Bình Dinh Province in Vietnam, the country central to his literary works.

He graduated with a BA in Western philosophy from the Saigon University of Literature. During the Vietnam War, he participated in the student movement against the war in Saigon and wrote stories for the anti-war magazines Trình Bay and Doi Dien. Currently he is based in Qui Nhon city, vernacularly known as Gia, where he works as an educator and author.

He has written twenty-four novels, twenty-two epic poems, three volumes of short stories and numerous poems, some of which have been printed into books and a variety of which have been widely published on domestic and foreign literary websites.

penguin pop image
penguin pop image