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The Song of Kieu: A New Lament

✍ Scribed by Nguyen Du

Book ID
112050948
Publisher
Penguin UK
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Weight
355 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780241360675
ASIN
B07GRDB5QG

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✦ Synopsis

Ever since it exploded into Vietnam's cultural life two centuries ago, The Song of Kieu has been one of that nation's most beloved and defining central myths. It recounts the tragic fate of the beautiful singer and poet Kieu, who agrees to marry to save her family from debt but is tricked into working in a brothel. Over the course of a swift-moving story involving kidnap, war, jealous wives and rebel heroes, she will become a queen, wife, nun, slave, victim and avenger, surviving through the strength of her words and her wits alone.Translated with an introduction by Timothy Allen

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Ever since it exploded into Vietnam's cultural life two centuries ago, *The Song of Kieu* has been one of that nation's most beloved and defining central myths. It recounts the tragic fate of the beautiful singer and poet Kieu, who agrees to marry to save her family from debt but is tricked into wor