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Penguin
August 2012
On Sale: August 16, 2012
528 pages
ISBN: 0670023752
EAN: 9780670023752
Kindle: B0074VTHJ8
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A major new novel from the most important Vietnamese author
writing today Duong Thu Huong has won acclaim for her exceptional lyricism
and psychological acumen, as well as for her unflinching
portraits of modern Vietnam and its culture and people. In
this monumental new novel she offers an intimate, imagined
account of the final months in the life of President Ho Chi
Minh at an isolated mountaintop compound where he is
imprisoned both physically and emotionally, weaving his
story in with those of his wife’s brother-in-law, an elder
in a small village town, and a close friend and political
ally, to explore how we reconcile the struggles of the human
heart with the external world. These narratives portray the thirst for absolute power, both
political and otherwise, and the tragic consequences on
family, community, and nationhood that can occur when
jealousy is coupled with greed or mixed with a lust for
power. The Zenith illuminates and captures the moral
conscience of Vietnamese leaders in the 1950s and 1960s as
no other book ever has, as well as bringing out the souls of
ordinary Vietnamese living through those tumultuous times.
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