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She Weeps Each Time You're Born
Quan Barry
Pantheon
February 2015
On Sale: February 10, 2015
288 pages
ISBN: 0307911772
EAN: 9780307911773
Kindle: B00MSRTET6
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Fiction
Quan Barry’s luminous fiction debut brings us the tumultuous
history of modern Vietnam as experienced by a young girl
born under mysterious circumstances a few years before the
country’s reunification, a child gifted with the
otherworldly ability to hear the voices of the dead.
At the peak of the war in Vietnam, a baby girl is born along
the Song Ma River on the night of the full moon. This is
Rabbit, who will journey away from her destroyed village
with a makeshift family thrown together by war. Here is a
Vietnam we’ve never encountered before: through Rabbit’s
inexplicable but radiant intuition, we are privy to an
intimate version of history, from the days of French
Indochina and the World War II rubber plantations through
the chaos of postwar reunification. With its use of magical
realism—Rabbit’s ability to “hear” the dead—the novel
reconstructs a turbulent historical period through a
painterly human lens. This is the moving story of one
woman’s struggle to unearth the true history of Vietnam
while simultaneously carving out a place for herself within it.
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