An Insignificant Family

Trade Paper – $19.95
ISBN 978-1-931896-48-1Contributors
Publication Date
June 2009
Categories
Page Count
270 pages
Trim Size
5.6 x 8.6
ISBN
1-931896-48-8
An Insignificant Family
Beginning in Vietnam shortly after the end of the American war and ending sometime in the 21st century, this 8th volume of Curbstone's Voices from Vietnam Series follows the life of Nguyen Thi My Tiep, a woman writer and a revolutionary, whose girlhood is spent as a guerrilla fighter, and whose post-war life becomes a search for personal liberation and individual love. Tiep's struggles are seamlessly connected to the changes her country is going through, as Da Ngan's daring and controversial novel draws us into the life of a woman who insists on leading a meaningful and honest life—as a citizen, as a daughter, as a mother, as a writer, and as a lover who pursues her own sexuality.
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