The Forbidden Purple CityThe Forbidden Purple City
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Book, 2019
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Current format, Book, 2019, , Available . Offered in 0 more formatsA man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honouring his parents. Two teenagers, ostracized in a private school, forge an unlikely bond. A son discovers the truth about his father's business ventures and his dreams of success. A young bride, isolated on a remote island with her new husband, finds community in a group of abalone divers. Taking the title for his debut collection of short fiction from the walled palace of Vietnam's Nguyen dynasty, Philip Huynh dives headfirst into the Vietnamese diaspora. In these stories, he creates a universe inhabited by the deprivations of war, the reinvention of self in new and unfamiliar settings, and the tensions between old-world parents and new-world children. Rooted in history and tradition yet startlingly contemporary in their approach, Huynh's stories are sensuously evocative, plunging us into worlds so all-encompassing that we can smell the scent of orange blossoms and hear the rumble of bass lines from suburban car stereos.
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- Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada : Goose Lane Editions, [2019], ©2019
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