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The Song of Kieu: A New Lament
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‘An essential book for anyone invested, not only in Vietnamese literature, but the historic power of the national epic . . . and its perennial place in our species’ efforts toward self-knowledge. Tim Allen’s new translation offers clean fluidity while honouring the original’s varied rhythms and jagged lyricism. A luminous feat.’ Ocean Vuong, winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot PrizeEver since it exploded into Vietnam’s cultural life two centuries ago, The Song of Kieu has been one of that nation’s most beloved and defining central myths. It recounts the tragic fate of the beautiful singer and poet Kieu, who agrees to marry to save her family from debt but is tricked into working in a brothel. Over the course of a swift-moving story involving kidnap, war, jealous wives and rebel heroes, she will become a queen, wife, nun, slave, victim and avenger, surviving through the strength of her words and her wits alone.Translated with an introduction by Timothy Allen
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| Weight | 0.182 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.4 × 12.7 × 19.7 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 240 |
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| Year Published | 2019-4-25 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0241360668 |
| About The Author | Nguyen Du (1766-1820) was born into turbulent times. His mother (a singer-songwriter) and his father (a poet, historian and senior figure in the Lê dynasty that had ruled Vietnam for centuries) died before he reached his teens; the Lê dynasty itself was overthrown in 1789 by a peasant uprising. When that uprising was in turn crushed (1802), Nguyen Du reluctantly accepted a diplomatic post in what would become Vietnam's final dynasty. Outwardly respectful to his new masters, he wroteThe Song of Kieu secretly, as an act of private rebellion. It remains perhaps the greatest masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. |
'Tim Allen's new translation of THE SONG OF KIEU is lively and absorbing. It reinvigorates a classic and wonderfully conveys the romance, adventure, tragedy, and wisdom of the poem that all Vietnamese know.' |
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| Other text | 'Tim Allen has done what most literary translators can only aspire to do. He has secured a place for a major foreign work in the stock of his mother tongue.' |
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