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Women's lives in Saigon become entangled with an American soldier's later return.
Women's lives in Saigon become entangled with an American soldier's later return.
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai follows history through separations, family bonds and consequences that outlive the fighting. Choose this for fiction interested in the people who carry a war into subsequent decades. The attraction is the encounter between the desire to revisit a past and the lives that have continued within it.
For readers drawn to character, language and the tensions within ordinary lives.
Polish edition · language: Polish
A decision at the registry office opens three versions of one family's future. Florence Knapp turns a familiar what-if into a question about power inside the home.
Polish edition · language: Polish
Returning to family brings questions of identity, intimacy and acceptance sharply into focus. Douglas Stuart approaches home as a place that can offer belonging and impose conditions at the same time.
Polish edition · language: Polish
In post-war Lower Silesia, a family tries to recover a home. Rebuilding ordinary life also means confronting the histories attached to the place.