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The Song of Kieu - A New Lament (Paperback)
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The Song of Kieu - A New Lament (Paperback)
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List price R308
Loot Price R250
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'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 Allen's new translation offers clean fluidity while honouring
the original's varied rhythms and jagged lyricism. A luminous
feat.' Ocean Vuong, winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize Ever since
it exploded into Vietnam's cultural life two centuries ago, The
Song of Kieu has been one of that nation's most beloved and
defining central myths. It recounts the tragic fate of the
beautiful singer and poet Kieu, who agrees to marry to save her
family from debt but is tricked into working in a brothel. Over the
course of a swift-moving story involving kidnap, war, jealous wives
and rebel heroes, she will become a queen, wife, nun, slave, victim
and avenger, surviving through the strength of her words and her
wits alone. Translated with an introduction by Timothy Allen
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