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Congai - Mistress of Indochine (Paperback)
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Congai - Mistress of Indochine (Paperback)
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Early 20th century French Indochina: a place where the cultures,
passions and blood of East and West mixed freely. In 1925, American
author Harry Hervey saw white men "sowing the legend of
Civilization in soil too fecund to resist any new growth,"
inspiring his most vivid novel. In a tale drunk with sensuous
beauty, irony and dark intensity, we experience the life of one
young girl-a congai-named Thi-Linh. Born of an Annamite mother and
French father, Thi-Linh-a creature of fragile beauty and savage
instinct-embodies the dreams, ambitions and future of Indochina,
where two disparate races struggled to become one. This expanded
modern edition features a provocative foreword by renowned travel
writer Pico Iyer; biographer Harlan Greene's author profile,
"Through a Woman's Eyes: Congai, Heroines & Harry Hervey";
supplemental articles and a bibliography of Hervey's complete
works. *** In his foreword, travel writer Pico Iyer comments:
"Hervey opened the door to the way we would be seeing Indochina-on
the page and in our heads-well into the 21st century. My deepest
astonishment came with seeing how much Congai anticipates perhaps
the greatest and most evergreen foreign novel about modern Vietnam,
The Quiet American, by Graham Greene. Almost ninety years later,
even in his wildest moments, Hervey caught something true that
those of us more than twice his age can only bow before."
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