“The Mountains Sing” by Nguyen Phan Que Mai is a wonderful book full of sadness and hope. The author has provided great insight into Vietnamese history and culture as she draws on the experiences of ...

Library bookshelves are full of histories, biographies, poetry and novels exploring the American experience in the Vietnam War. But at least in America, with the notable exception of documentaries, ...

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai's new novel is a luminous, complex family saga that stretches across decades of Vietnamese history, from the French... In The Mountains Sing, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai has created a ...

The novel is narrated from the dual perspectives of Hương, affectionately known as Guava, and her grandmother, Trần Diệu Lan. In 1972, Hương and Diệu Lan are trying to survive the American bombing of ...

Nguyễn’s lyrical, sweeping debut novel (after the poetry collection The Secret of Hoa Sen) chronicles the Tran family through a century of war and renewal. As middle-aged writer Hương revisits her ...

"The Mountains Sing" is a multigenerational epic about a family torn apart by war and the efforts of its various members to survive. It is also the missing narrative of the American War in Vietnam.