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"My heart sank. I dumped my father's ashes in the heart of communist Vietnam - over a thousand miles from the death of his comrades - over a thousand miles from the smile of that girl. How could I have been so stupid?"Only the bumbling, overweight, thirtyish, stay-at-home Martin Kinney could have mistakenly flubbed his dying father's request with such gusto. This thousand mile mistake awakens the ghosts of long-held family secrets and puts Martin on a fateful course with an unlikely romantic interest - a young, beautiful, yet troubled Vietnamese woman named My Phuong.With its cross-cultural setting and unlikely romance, the 61,000 word novel Beauty Rising creates a powerful, unique voice in today's literature. In a swift- moving, dialogue-driven prose which is funny, honest, tragic and unpredictable, Beauty Rising explores the depths of culture, family, and love as the Vietnam War, a generation removed, continues to hang on the periphery of society, cursing families and causing destruction. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The main character, Martin, comes in the form of a lumbering, overweight, ginger-haired man, who, at thirty-six, still lives with his mother—a mother embittered by her empty marriage to his father, a veteran of the Vietnam war that changed him irrevocably.
Martin is an unlikely hero, but what is so appealing about him is his development from a bland, stay-at-home character, who has a boring and mundane job, to a wholesome and determined person.
When his dying father asks Martin to scatter his ashes in Vietnam, Martin manages to bungle the request big time: little does he know that his error will eventually lead him to the mysterious and beautiful Vietnamese My Phuong. Vietnam is an unwelcome word in his mother’s vocabulary, and its new prominence in Martin’s life opens up a box of family secrets, regrets. and renewed resentment. A resentment so strong, she is determined that Vietnam will not ruin her son’s life like it ruined her own.
The ending stuns and astounds you, and Martin brings his story to a poignant, touching, and satisfying conclusion.
There’s no doubt that the author was passionate not only about his characters, but about Vietnam too: that passion shone through clearly and embraced a first-class story. ( )