A New York Times Editors\' Choice SelectionA Winner of the 2020 Lannan Literary Awards Fellowship A Best Book of 2020: NPR * Washington Independent Review of Books An] absorbing, stirring novel . --VIET THANH NGUYEN, author of The Sympathizer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee\'s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi\'s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner\'s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop.
Moving and riveting. . .
Vast in scope and intimate in its telling . . . --The New York Times Book Review A triumph, a novelistic rendition of one of the most difficult times in Vietnamese history . that, in more than one sense, remedies history. . .
A New York Times Editors\' Choice SelectionA Winner of the 2020 Lannan Literary Awards Fellowship A Best Book of 2020: NPR\'s Book Concierge * PopMatters * Washington Independent Review of Books * Real Simple * The Buzz Magazine * NB Magazine * BookBrowse An] absorbing, stirring novel .
The Mountains Sing is celebrated Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Phan Quế
Mai\'s first novel in English.
Vivid, gripping, and steeped in the language and traditions of Việt Nam, The Mountains Sing brings to life the human costs of this conflict from the point of view of the Vietnamese people themselves, while showing us the true power of kindness and hope.
Years later in H Nội, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hồ
Ch Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that tore apart not just her beloved country, but also her family.
Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. --VIET THANH NGUYEN, author of The Sympathizer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee\'s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi\'s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner\'s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War.
Moving and riveting. . .
Vast in scope and intimate in its telling . . . --The New York Times Book Review A triumph, a novelistic rendition of one of the most difficult times in Vietnamese history . that, in more than one sense, remedies history. . .
A New York Times Editors\' Choice SelectionA Winner of the 2020 Lannan Literary Awards Fellowship A Best Book of 2020: NPR * Washington Independent Review of Books An] absorbing, stirring novel
