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Title: A Time Far Past by Lu Le, Ngo Vinh Hai, Nguyen Ba Chung, Kevin Bowen, David Hunt, Luu Le ISBN: 155849085X Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3

Rating: 3
Summary: Individualism and Romance in Viet Nam
Comment: In the editor's introduction to "A Time Far Past," we are encouraged to read this novel as a North Vietnamese perspective on the American Wars. Don't come here for such a story. Le Luu weaves a simple, heroic love story around life of a villager who refusal to submit to the fate of his childhood, arranged marriage. Going off to war to escape his wife, he still lacks the ability to define his sense of self. We watch his late-blooming after many failed relationships through the eyes of a somewhat moralizing and acutely critical narrator whose portrayal of shifting cultural values in Viet Nam is intimate and human. While this experimental, multiperspective narrative is sometimes unconvincing, I found I could not put it down. Among the few novels mentioned in the plot is Jane Eyre. My opinion is that if you like a good romance you will enjoy this.