The Forbidden Purple City

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2019

ISBN-13: 9781773100791

<p><b>Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award 2019</b></p><p>A man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honouring his parents. Two teenagers, ostracized in a private school, forge an unlikely bond. A son discovers the truth about his father&#39;s business ventures and his dreams of success. A young bride, isolated on a remote island with her new husband, finds community in a group of abalone divers.</p><p>Taking the title for his debut collection of short fiction from the walled palace of Vietnam&#39;s Nguyen dynasty, Philip Huynh dives headfirst into the Vietnamese diaspora. In these beautifully crafted stories, crystalline in their clarity and immersive in their intensity, he creates a universe inhabited by the deprivations of war, the reinvention of self in a new and unfamiliar settings, and the tensions between old-world parents and new-world children. Rooted in history and tradition yet startlingly contemporary in their approach, Huynh&#39;s stories are sensuously evocative, plunging us into worlds so all-encompassing that we can smell the scent of orange blossoms and hear the rumble of bass lines from suburban car stereos.</p>