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• catalog abstract "Readers and reviewers around the world have embraced Duong Thu Huong's novels and hailed her for her outspoken advocacy of democracy and human rights and her courage in the face of government persecution. In the U.S., where Huong was the first contemporary Vietnamese novelist ever published in English translation, her books have been called "extraordinary and profoundly tragic" (Boston Sunday Globe), "astonishingly powerful" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), and "breathtakingly original" (San Francisco Chronicle). Though her novels are banned in Vietnam, where she continues to live in internal exile, Huong remains one of the most popular and controversial writers for Vietnamese readers both at home and abroad. Originally published in Vietnam in 1987, Beyond Illusions established the author as one of the major voices of her generation, selling more than 100,000 copies, an astonishing figure given the then impoverished state of the country. Now available for the first time in translation, this daring debut novel is sure to confirm Huong's international reputation as both the most lyrical and the most lucid analyst of her country. This arresting work opens with a woman named Linh staring at her sleeping husband, Nguyen, with a mixture of bewilderment and disgust. She strains to remember how she, as a young student, once linked her destiny to his. A scruffy yet romantic professor of literature, Nguyen had captivated Linh with his youthful optimism and lofty moral values. During their first years together, the couple struggled to make ends meet in the penury and deprivation of postwar Vietnam. But when Nguyen left academia to become a journalist, he confronted the harsh reality of the Party and the crushing weight of its bureaucracy. Torn between his outrage at the rampant corruption and hypocrisy of the Communist party, and the need to provide for his family, Nguyen ultimately surrendered to the propaganda machine, censoring his own articles and fabricating statistics to keep his job. Having recently discovered the truth about her husband, Linh's heroic vision of him is now shattered and she decides to leave him rather than betray their shared principles. But soon, she too must confront the realities of a country where power has corrupted even love, where fear has silenced all but the bravest, and only flatterers and opportunists survive.".
• catalog alternative "Bên kia bờ ảo vọng. English".
• catalog contributor b12360866.
• catalog contributor b12360867.
• catalog contributor b12360868.
• catalog coverage "Vietnam Politics and government 1975- Fiction.".
• catalog created "c2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "c2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
• catalog description "Originally published in Vietnam in 1987, Beyond Illusions established the author as one of the major voices of her generation, selling more than 100,000 copies, an astonishing figure given the then impoverished state of the country. Now available for the first time in translation, this daring debut novel is sure to confirm Huong's international reputation as both the most lyrical and the most lucid analyst of her country. This arresting work opens with a woman named Linh staring at her sleeping husband, Nguyen, with a mixture of bewilderment and disgust. She strains to remember how she, as a young student, once linked her destiny to his. A scruffy yet romantic professor of literature, Nguyen had captivated Linh with his youthful optimism and lofty moral values. During their first years together, the couple struggled to make ends meet in the penury and deprivation of postwar Vietnam. But when Nguyen left academia to become a journalist, he confronted the harsh reality of the Party and the crushing weight of its bureaucracy. Torn between his outrage at the rampant corruption and hypocrisy of the Communist party, and the need to provide for his family, Nguyen ultimately surrendered to the propaganda machine, censoring his own articles and fabricating statistics to keep his job. Having recently discovered the truth about her husband, Linh's heroic vision of him is now shattered and she decides to leave him rather than betray their shared principles. But soon, she too must confront the realities of a country where power has corrupted even love, where fear has silenced all but the bravest, and only flatterers and opportunists survive.".
• catalog description "Readers and reviewers around the world have embraced Duong Thu Huong's novels and hailed her for her outspoken advocacy of democracy and human rights and her courage in the face of government persecution. In the U.S., where Huong was the first contemporary Vietnamese novelist ever published in English translation, her books have been called "extraordinary and profoundly tragic" (Boston Sunday Globe), "astonishingly powerful" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), and "breathtakingly original" (San Francisco Chronicle). Though her novels are banned in Vietnam, where she continues to live in internal exile, Huong remains one of the most popular and controversial writers for Vietnamese readers both at home and abroad.".
• catalog extent "247 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Beyond illusions.".
• catalog identifier "0786864176".
• catalog isFormatOf "Beyond illusions.".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "c2002.".
• catalog language "eng vie".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Hyperion East,".
• catalog relation "Beyond illusions.".
• catalog spatial "Vietnam Politics and government 1975- Fiction.".
• catalog spatial "Vietnam".
• catalog subject "895.9/22334 21".
• catalog subject "Adultery Fiction.".
• catalog subject "Married people Vietnam Fiction.".
• catalog subject "PL4378.9.D759 A213 2002".
• catalog subject "Reporters and reporting Vietnam Fiction.".
• catalog title "Beyond illusions / Duong Thu Huong ; translated from the Vietnamese by Nina McPherson and Phan Huy Duong.".
• catalog title "Bên kia bờ ảo vọng. English".
• catalog type "Political fiction.".
• catalog type "text".