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Song of Kieu : A New Lament, Paperback by Nguyen, Du; Allen, Timothy (TRN); A...

Description: Song of Kieu : A New Lament, Paperback by Nguyen, Du; Allen, Timothy (TRN); Allen, Timothy (INT), ISBN 0241360668, ISBN-13 9780241360668, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "An essential book for anyone invested, not only in Vietnamese literature, but the historic power of the national epic...and its perennial place in our species efforts toward self-knowledge. Tim Allens new translation offers clean fluidity while honouring the originals varied rhythms and jagged lyricism. A luminous feat." --Ocean Vuong

A stunning new translation of the legendary Vietnamese epic poem, now for the first time in Penguin Classics


Considered the greatest literary achievement in Vietnamese, The Song of Kieu tells the story of the beautiful Vuong Thuy Kieu, who agrees to a financially profitable marriage in order to save her family from ruinous debts, but is tricked into working in a brothel. Her tragic life involves jealous wives, slavery, war, poverty, and time as a nun. Adapted from a seventeenth-century Chinese novel, Jin Yun Qiao, written by an unknown writer under the pseudonym Qingxin Cairen, author Nguyen Du upended the plots traditional love story by conveying the social and political upheavals at the end of the 18th century in Vietnam.

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Book Title: Song of Kieu : a New Lament

Number of Pages: 240 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Topic: Classics, Asian / General, Epic

Item Height: 0.7 in

Publication Year: 2019

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Poetry, Fiction

Item Weight: 6.3 Oz

Author: Du Du Nguyen

Item Length: 7.7 in

Item Width: 5.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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