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| | Amazon.com: Paradise of the Blind: A Novel: Books: Thu Huong Duong,Nina McPherson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | The author, who lives with her children in Hanoi, depicts the complexity of Vietnamese culture--the allegiance to family and ancestors, the symbolic value of food, class distinctions and the continuing sense of desperation mingled with pride. |
 | | While there are subtle allusions to war and peacetime, Huong's focus is on the shifting, uneasy relationships between modernized Hang and her traditionalist mother, a merchant who peddles food; Hang's selfish, hypocritical uncle, a communist peasant; and Hang's comparatively wealthy, unconditionally loving aunt. |
 | | This is especially the case with Huong's 1988 work Paradise of the Blind, the story of a young Hanoi woman, Hang, forced to give up her university studies and work in the Soviet Union in order to support her mother. |
| www.amazon.com /Paradise-Blind-Thu-Huong-Duong/dp/0060505591 (2814 words) |
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