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The Mountains Sing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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Essay Topics

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How might a greater confidence in free will over fate have benefited or disadvantaged the novel’s characters?

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How might the fate of Diệu Lan and her children have been better or worse had she heeded Tú’s advice and fled to the South?

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This is Nguyễn’s first English-language publication. Defend or critique her decision to write this story in the language of one of modern Vietnam’s greatest oppressors.

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