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A tragic story of love and politics from the renowned Vietnamese writer and dissident
During the war. Hung, a well-known composer, meets a young peasant girl named Suong. Enchanted by her voice and her beauty, he invites her to join his troupe; she becomes his wife and his star performer. But after the war, Hung loses his job, setting off a series of events that drive him and Suong into a destructive spiral. Memories of a Pure Spring is a mesmerizing portrait of modern Vietnam and its people struggling to survive the complexities of a post war regime. It draws on the experiences of its author to describe life at the battlefront, the conditions of a "reeducation" camp, and the texture and rhythm, scents and sounds, of a provincial Vietnamese city. Most of all, it tells a universal story of a failed love that is as haunting as it is riveting.
During the war. Hung, a well-known composer, meets a young peasant girl named Suong. Enchanted by her voice and her beauty, he invites her to join his troupe; she becomes his wife and his star performer. But after the war, Hung loses his job, setting off a series of events that drive him and Suong into a destructive spiral. Memories of a Pure Spring is a mesmerizing portrait of modern Vietnam and its people struggling to survive the complexities of a post war regime. It draws on the experiences of its author to describe life at the battlefront, the conditions of a "reeducation" camp, and the texture and rhythm, scents and sounds, of a provincial Vietnamese city. Most of all, it tells a universal story of a failed love that is as haunting as it is riveting.