Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #278567 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 276 pages

Customer Reviews

worthwhile read
This is a well researched story that uses the historic elements of the ancient Vietnamese culture to tell a story that works on a contemporary level. Very vivid and interesting.

Delightful and Illuminating: Daughters of the River Huong
Daughters of the River Huong, I believe, offers an archetypal remedy for an incompleteness and a longing deep in the American collective consciousness.

Two weeks ago I took a boatride on the River Huong, serenaded by musicians playing traditional music from Hue. It was the fulfillment of a desire I've had for many years--much enriched by the images and feelings described in Uyen Nicole Duong's exquisite book.

At one point, the musicians sang a well-known and enchanting song about the ten virtues of the Vietnamese woman. Under the full moon, in that boat gently rocking on the River Huong, I was overwhelmed by the sentiments of that song sung by those seven women singers. I was reminded of a comment made by historians Will and Ariel Durant, who wrote that if the sins and good works of the Middle Ages were measured on a scale, the balance would be tipped in favor of goodness--tipped by the weight of the noble works done by the women of that period. I was also reminded of a comment by a Vietnamese friend and social observer, who recently told me that he gives all credit for the preservation of van hoa Viet Nam (Vietnamese culture), from time immemorial, to "the Ladies of Viet Nam."

I think that most readers of Daughters of the River Huong will be inspired by the remarkable grace and strength of Vietnamese women and by the beauty and profundity of Vietnamese culture. Readers, too, will be left with a better understanding of why, transcendental to issues of politics and economics, we Americans remain fascinated by Viet Nam to the present day.

Daughters of the River Huong helps readers to learn of Vietnam rich history
Daughter of the River Huong is a great story. It is very well written. It made me paused occassionally to think about of the events that Ms. Uyen(Judge Uyen!!) lead us to the earlier rich history of Vietnam, which I do not know much of.

I hope this story will make to a movie or film someday near future. If you appreciate the history of Vietnam, this is a book for you.

I can't help when reading the book that Vietnam, as a country been through set back and suprised opportunities via the past century, colonized by the French, and last America get to where they are today of the economic opportunity.

The story is a heart broken but also revealed of the tenacious woman who is determined to define her own destination.

Tony T. Tran
San Francisco, CA