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Monkey Bridge

By Lan Cao

By Lan Cao

By Lan Cao

By Lan Cao

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Jun 01, 1998 | ISBN 9780140263619

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Jun 01, 1998 | ISBN 9781101658284

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    About Monkey Bridge

    Hailed by critics and writers as powerful, important fiction, Monkey Bridge charts the unmapped territory of the Vietnamese American experience in the aftermath of war.

    Like navigating a monkey bridge—a bridge, built of spindly bamboo, used by peasants for centuries—the narrative traverses perilously between worlds past and present, East and West, in telling two interlocking stories: one, the Vietnamese version of the classic immigrant experience in America, told by a young girl; and the second, a dark tale of betrayal, political intrigue, family secrets, and revenge—her mother’s tale. The haunting and beautiful terrain of Monkey Bridge is the “luminous motion,” as it is called in Vietnamese myth and legend, between generations, encompassing Vietnamese lore, history, and dreams of the past as well as of the future.

    “With incredible lightness, balance and elegance,” writes Isabel Allende, “Lan Cao crosses over an abyss of pain, loss, separation and exile, connecting on one level the opposite realities of Vietnam and North America, and on a deeper level the realities of the material world and the world of the spirits.”


       • Quality Paperback Book Club Selection and New Voices Award nominee
       • A Kiriyama Pacific Rim Award Book Prize nominee

    About Monkey Bridge

    Hailed by critics and writers as powerful, important fiction, Monkey Bridge charts the unmapped territory of the Vietnamese American experience in the aftermath of war.

    Like navigating a monkey bridge—a bridge, built of spindly bamboo, used by peasants for centuries—the narrative traverses perilously between worlds past and present, East and West, in telling two interlocking stories: one, the Vietnamese version of the classic immigrant experience in America, told by a young girl; and the second, a dark tale of betrayal, political intrigue, family secrets, and revenge—her mother’s tale. The haunting and beautiful terrain of Monkey Bridge is the “luminous motion,” as it is called in Vietnamese myth and legend, between generations, encompassing Vietnamese lore, history, and dreams of the past as well as of the future.

    “With incredible lightness, balance and elegance,” writes Isabel Allende, “Lan Cao crosses over an abyss of pain, loss, separation and exile, connecting on one level the opposite realities of Vietnam and North America, and on a deeper level the realities of the material world and the world of the spirits.”


       • Quality Paperback Book Club Selection and New Voices Award nominee
       • A Kiriyama Pacific Rim Award Book Prize nominee

    Also by Lan Cao

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    Family in Six Tones
    The Lotus and the Storm
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    About Lan Cao

    Lan Cao is the author of Monkey Bridge and The Lotus and the Storm, and most recently of the scholarly work Culture in Law and Development: Nurturing Positive Change. She is a professor of law at the Chapman University School of Law, and an internationally… More about Lan Cao

    About Lan Cao

    Lan Cao is the author of Monkey Bridge and The Lotus and the Storm, and most recently of the scholarly work Culture in Law and Development: Nurturing Positive Change. She is a professor of law at the Chapman University School of Law, and an internationally… More about Lan Cao

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jun 01, 1998 | 272 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140263619

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jun 01, 1998 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9781101658284

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