No Man's Land Author:Duong Thu Huong From Vietnam's most popular writer and famous dissident comes a mesmerizing novel about a tragic love triangle between characters whose destinies have been irrevocably altered by the absurdity of war. — No Man's Land is set in a hamlet in the countryside of central Vietnam immediately following the end of the war in 1975, where a... more » young woman, happily married to a successful farmer, comes home one day to find a throng of villagers assembled around her gate. She learns that her first husband, who reportedly died as a martyr and war hero many years back, is in fact alive and has returned to claim her. Faced with immense pressure from the community and Party authorities, she dutifully agrees to leave her second husband and their son to live in a squalid shack with the veteran.
This tragic twist of fate gives the novel a powerful narrative drive that makes it Huong's most accomplished work to date.« less