Twilight Territoty by Andrew X. Pham (Hardcover)

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Fiction – Historical – World Literature – Southeast Asia\nRELEASE DATE: 1\/23\/2024(WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER’S WAREHOUSE)\nA sweeping first novel of love, war, and resistance in postWorld War II Vietnam, by the award-winning author ofCatfish and Mandala.\nThe peak of the hot season, 1942: The wars in Europe and Asia and the Japanese occupation have upset the uneasy balance of French Indochina. In the Vietnamese fishing village of Phan Thiet, Tuyet ekes out a living at a small storefront with her aunt Coi, her cousin Ha, and her two-year-old daughter, Anh. She can hardly remember her luxurious life in the city of Saigon, which she left just two years ago.\nThe day Tuyet meets Japanese major Yamazaki Takeshi is inauspicious and stifling, with no relief from the sand-stirring wind. But to her surprise, she feels not fear or wariness, but a strange kinship. Tuyet is guarded, knowing how the townspeople might whisper, yet is drawn to Takeshis warmth all the same. A wounded veteran with a good heart, Takeshi grows to resent the Empire for what it has takenand the promises it has failed to keep. As the Viet Minh begin to battle the French and Takeshi risks his life for the Resistance, Tuyet and her family are drawn into the conflict, with devastating consequences.\nA lushly panoramic novel, by turns gritty and profoundly moving,Twilight Territoryis at once a war story and a love story that offers a fascinating perspective on Vietnams struggles to break free of its French colonial past. At its heart is one womans struggle for independence and her countrys liberation.\nAUTHOR BIO:\nAndrew X. Phamis a journalist and author who has been a Guggenheim Fellow, winner of the Whiting Writers’ Award and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in Bangkok and California.\n\”A sensual fever dream of a novel. Compulsively readable. Much like Marguerite Duras, Pham illuminates parts of Vietnams lesser-known history through the complicated lives of its people.\” -Tatjana Soli, author ofThe Lotus Eaters\n\n\”Deeply empathetic, heart-wrenching, and moving,Twilight Territoryhighlights the devastating impact of colonization on both the colonizers and the colonized. With his iconic poetic prose, Andrew X. Pham gifts us an epic love story that conquers wars, horror, and human greed to offer us hope and light.\” -Nguyen Phan Que Mai, internationally best-selling author ofThe Mountains SingandDust Child\n\n\”[A] transportive novel of love and resistance…. Combining the sensuality of Marguerite Duras with the revolutionary politics of Andre Malraux, Pham describes the ordeals faced by Tuyet and Takeshi in the most viscerally harrowing of terms, creating two memorable characters whose relationship is equal parts romantic and sacrificial. With captivating force, Pham brings to life a lesser-known aspect of the tragic history of Vietnam.\” -Publishers Weekly, starred review