Name: Congai - Mistress of Indochine
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Author: Pico Iyer
ISBN: 9781934431887

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Physical Book

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Preface by

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Language

English

Pages

396

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

24.4 x 17.0 x 2.1 cm

Weight

0.63 kg.

ISBN13

9781934431887

Synopsis "Congai - Mistress of Indochine "

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."

Pico Iyer

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Pico Iyer es un ensayista y novelista británico nacido en Oxford y criado entre Inglaterra y California, reconocido por su estilo contemplativo y su enfoque en temas como el viaje, la espiritualidad y el sentido de pertenencia en un mundo globalizado. Con una formación académica en Oxford y Harvard, ha escrito extensamente para medios internacionales y se ha convertido en una voz singular que explora los cruces entre culturas, identidades y geografías.

Su obra literaria abarca tanto ensayos como narrativas de viaje, en las que reflexiona sobre la vida interior y la búsqueda de significado en tiempos modernos. Ejemplo de su obra: The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise. En este libro reciente, Iyer examina la idea de paraíso desde múltiples tradiciones y territorios, enlazando filosofía, historia y experiencia personal. Su prosa invita a detenerse, mirar hacia dentro y reconsiderar lo que significa estar en movimiento en el mundo actual.

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