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Born and raised in Việt Nam, Dr. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai is the author of the international bestseller The Mountains Sing, runner-up for the 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the 2020 BookBrowse Best Debut Award, the 2021 International Book Awards, the 2021 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, and the 2020 Lannan Literary Award Fellowship for Fiction. She has published twelve books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in Vietnamese and English and has received some of the top literary prizes in Việt Nam including the Poetry of the Year 2010 from the Hà Nội Writers Association. Her writing has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in major publications including the New York Times. She has a PhD in Creative Writin ...more

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MY SECOND NOVEL, DUST CHILD!

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I am thrilled that my second novel, DUST CHILD, has been published.

The seed of this novel was planted many years ago, when I grew up in Southern Việt Nam, where during the late seventies and in the eighties I got a glimpse of the discrimination faced by Amerasians born from the wartime unions between American men and Vietnamese women. Over the years, I kept thinking about those Ameras Read more of this blog post »

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	The Mountains Sing 4.32 avg rating — 49,072 ratings — published 2020 — 60 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 tới Biển Sông by Eva Ibbotson, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 16,413 ratings — published 2001 — 90 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 Secret of Hoa Sen by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (Goodreads Author), Bruce Weigl (Translation) 4.28 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2014 — 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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“What my uncle said made me think. I had resented America, too. But by reading their books, I saw the other side of them--their humanity. Somehow I was sure that if people were willing to read each other, and see the light of other cultures, there would be no war on earth.”
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“Human lives were short and fragile. Time and illnesses consumed us, like flames burning away these pieces of wood. But it didn’t matter how long or short we lived. It mattered more how much light we were able to shed on those we loved and how many people we touched with our compassion.”
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“I realized that war was monstrous. If it didn’t kill those it touched, it took away a piece of their souls, so they could never be whole again.”
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Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Fantasy

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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Classics

13 votes 15.9%

Uprooted by Naomi Novik
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The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
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11 votes 13.4%

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Literary Fiction

11 votes 13.4%

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
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6 votes 7.3%

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
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Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown
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Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina
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The Secret Wisdom of the Earth by Christopher Scotton
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“Realize that blood that is shed can't make blood flow again in other people's veins.”
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“Being a mother is never easy... It’s about failing, learning, and then failing again.”
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“Shadows of villages that bordered the horizon looked like women whose backs were bent with the burdens of life. My mother had had to bear hers, and it was now my turn.”
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