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Dương Thu Hương

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in Thai Binh, Viet Nam

January 01, 1947

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Dương Thu Hương (b. 1947) is a Vietnamese author and political dissident. Formerly a member of Vietnam's communist party, she was expelled from the party in 1989, and has been denied the right to travel abroad, and was temporarily imprisoned for her writings and outspoken criticism of corruption in the Vietnamese government.

Born in 1947 in Thai Binh a province in northern Vietnam, Dương came of age just as the Vietnam War was turning violent. At the age of twenty, when she was a student at Vietnamese Ministry of Culture’s Arts College, Dương Thu Hương volunteered to serve in a women’s youth brigade on the front lines of “The War Against the Americans". Dương spent the next seven years of the war in the jungles and tunnels of Binh Tri Thien, ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 6,708 ratings · 859 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors

	Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu Hương, Nina McPherson (Translator), Phan Huy Đường (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 3,088 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Novel Without a Name by Dương Thu Hương, Phan Huy Duong (Translator), Nina McPherson (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 1,453 ratings — published 1991 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Terre des oublis by Dương Thu Hương, Phan Huy Đường (Translator) 3.77 avg rating — 734 ratings — published 2002 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Illusions by Dương Thu Hương, Nina McPherson (Translator) 3.76 avg rating — 314 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hành trình ngày thơ ấu 3.82 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 1985 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memories of a Pure Spring by Dương Thu Hương, Nina McPherson 3.67 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Zenith by Dương Thu Hương, Stephen B. Young (Translator), Hoa P. Young (Translator) 3.41 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 2009 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sanctuaire du coeur by Dương Thu Hương, Phuong Dang Tran (Traduction) 3.57 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Collines d'eucalyptus by Dương Thu Hương, Phuong Dang Tran (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chuyện tình kể trước lúc rạng đông 3.65 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1986 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The habit of misery had twisted these people, driving them to this paranoia. What had been diligence turned to desperation.”
― Duong Thu Huong, Paradis of the Blind

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“...he said:"To love, we need passion, but also respect. Once, someone told me that all you needed to build lasting happiness was a woman who admired and respected her man. But now, I know that's wrong. Happiness is much more difficult to attain. It's like crossing a suspension bridge; it's fragile, shaky, and there's no guardrail. You have to find your own equilibrium. And for that to happen, it has to rest on two centers of gravity, on both partners.”
― Thu Huong Duong, Beyond Illusions

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“At the center of these stifling landscapes, on a green carpet of weed, those purple flowers always glistened, radiant in the middle of filth: the atrocious ornament of a life snuffed out.”
― Dương Thu Hương, Paradise of the Blind

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Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood
(199 pages)

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The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald
(296 pages)

13 votes, 27.1%

Paradise of the Blind, by Dương Thu Hương
(270 pages)

6 votes, 12.5%

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