Paradise of the Blind (Magill Book Reviews)
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- Author: Thu Huong Duong
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Communism or communists, Victims, Vietnam War, Farms, farmers, or farming, Orphans or orphanages, Southeast Asia, Soviet Union or Soviets
- Locales: Soviet Union, North Vietnam
PARADISE OF THE BLIND provides Western readers with our first fictional glimpse into the internal political struggles of Vietnam from the 1950’s through the 1980’s from the very human perspective of those who suffered most, the working-class people caught in the chaos of changing ideologies and socioeconomic experimentation.
Hang, the central character, represents many of those victimized by the circumstances of the times. Daughter of a schoolteacher and small village property owner from a respected family who is branded by the communists “an exploiter of the people,”...
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