{"product_id":"memories-of-a-pure-spring-9780140298437","title":"Memories of a Pure Spring","description":"\u003cb\u003eMemories of a Pure Spring\u003c\/b\u003e is a mesmerizing portrait of modern Vietnam and its people who struggle to survive under the complexities of a post-war regime. During the Vietnam war, Hung, a well-known composer, becomes enchanted by the voice and beauty of a young peasant girl named Suong. He invites her to join his troupe; she becomes his wife and his star performer. But after the war, Hung loses his job, setting off a series of events that drive him and Suong into a destructive spiral. One of Vietnam's most popular writers, \u003cb\u003eDuong Thu Huong\u003c\/b\u003e draws on her own experiences to describe life at the battlefront, the conditions of a \"re-education\" camp, and the texture and rhythm, scents and sounds, of a provincial Vietnamese city. Most of all, she tells a haunting, universal story of failed love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDuong Thu Huong\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003cb\u003eParadise of the Blind\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eNovel Without a Name\u003c\/b\u003e (both from Penguin) is an advocate of human rights and democratic political reform, and was expelled from the Communist Party and imprisoned without trial in 1991. The Vietnamese government has effectively banned all of her novels. She lives in Hanoi.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52127696290066,"sku":"9780140298437","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4638f6c6-a207-4b46-830a-d7e1f3aff161.jpg?v=1773743692","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/memories-of-a-pure-spring-9780140298437","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}