01815cam a2200301 i 4500 461856651 TxAuBib 20201216120000.0 190716s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019030591 9781616208189 hardcover $26.95 161620818X hardcover $26.95 TxAuBib rda Nguyen, Que Mai Phan. The mountains sing [Book] : a novel / Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai. First edition. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020. 342 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The tallest mountains -- Red on the white grains -- The fortune teller -- Getting up and falling down again -- The great hunger -- My father's gift -- The land reform -- The journey south -- The walk -- My mother's secret -- Destination -- The country bumpkin boy -- The way to happiness -- My Uncle Minh -- Facing the enemy -- My grandmother's songs. "The multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần̂n Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Nội, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hồ Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that will tear not just her beloved country but her family apart"-- Provided by publisher. 20201216. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Fiction. Thriller. Historial fiction.