Genealogy Books - Paradise of the Blind: A Novel

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Summary: good book
Comment: this was an excellent book that portreyed the life and rich history of the vietnamese woman.

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Summary: good book
Comment: this was an excellent book that portreyed the life and rich history of the vietnamese woman.

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Summary: Beautiful and Truthful
Comment: If anyone wants to truly understand Vietnam's history and what life under communism is like, they
should read this book. Duong Thu Huong reveals a reality I had not known about until I read
Paradise of the Blind. This book captures the idealistic hope and devastating betrayal and
disillusionment of those who gave their lives and hopes to communism, only to discover it is a lie.
I will never be able to look at Vietnam and the war the same way again. The fact that this book is
banned in Vietnam only reveals its power. I look forward to reading more of this author's books.

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Summary: Powerfully subtly, poetic, moving prose from Vietnam
Comment: Powerful in it's subtlety, brilliant in it's poetry. The beauty of the Vietnamese language and way
of life is portrayed in this moving and firm commentary of Communism and Vietnamese tradition.
Absolutely engaging of the mind and the heart. No characters have ever been as dear to me, nor
any message given to me as carefully and respectfully. I've never read a book so poetic in its
language, yet as meaningful as it is poetic.

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Summary: "Paradise of The Blind" is about lives under Communism
Comment: When the Vietnamese Communist Party slightly gave people freedom of speech in 1987, Duong Thu Huong
cleverly borrowed many stories to analyze what had happened to ordinary people of the northern part
of Vietnam under the communist regime. She challenges the communists to look at people's miserable
lives that they have made and lured people into. Paradise of The Blind depicts some
realities of negative aspects of communism. The story circles around the life of a young lady,
Hang, in her relationship with her both mother's and father's relatives. All of them, her mother,
her aunt, her uncle, her cousins and herself are all intertwined in a twist of the country without
a way out. The story gives readers a mixed feeling of pity, sympathy, hatred and love for these
Vietnamese people. However, Duong Thu Huong does not tell the whole truth. She does not
point out some crucial details of the horrors the Land Reform Movement had created and of how poor
people had been through. For example, these communists and even common people would sacrifice their
parents and their siblings for their own fame and future during the Land Reform Movement.
Moreover, many communists would not give their immediate families' members a way out.
Paradise of The Blind was among the first books written under Vietnamese Communist Regime ever
translated into English. I think you will enjoy it. If you are among those suffering and
struggling by the ideal or "paradise" of the communists, you will share the same feelings of those
people. If you don't know what live under the Communist Regime is like, you may have a great
insight about it.

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