Title : The Mountain of Perfumes - Pedro Nguyen Long - book

• Summary

Thao and Xuân have four lovely daughters, but no sons... In one of the sixteen pagodas of Perfume Mountain, Thao then goes on a pilgrimage. His wish will be granted: a boy will be born, Nguyên Long Cuong - he will later be called Pedro. His exceptional and tormented destiny will merge with that of his country, Vietnam. Pampered by his family, Pedro grows up in Haiphong, where, in the 1940s, colonization was casting its last flames. He is still a child when the first bombings of the Indochina War push his family onto the roads of exodus. Soon seduced by the revolutionary ideal, Pedro joins the maquis and becomes an actor in a communist propaganda troupe. He is fourteen years old. Two years later, his father rescues him from the hands of the Viet Minh. He is nevertheless tortured in French jails. Released from prison, now a man, he learns to survive, first in Hanoi, then, after the fall of Dien Bien Phu, in a charming and corrupt Saigon where he will experience impossible love with a Eurasian woman... Pedro manages to leave Vietnam before the war against the Americans sets his country ablaze. But his family will continue to suffer - in the re-education camps, in the hell of the boat people - and he will not rest until his family is finally reunited... Twenty years after the bestseller The Palanquin of Tears, the new great story by Georges Walter.

• EAN : 9782221079645
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