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Mysterious fragrance of the Yellow Mountains / Yasuko Thanh.

by Thanh, Yasuko.

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Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Canada Books Inc., a Penguin Random House Company, 2016.

Physicians -- Fiction.

Revolutionaries -- Fiction.

French -- Vietnam -- Fiction.

Attempted assassination -- Fiction.

Nationalism -- Vietnam -- Fiction.

Nineteen hundreds (Decade) -- Fiction.

Vietnam -- Fiction.

9780670068784 (trade pbk.)

xii, 301 p. ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (page 301).

Vietnam is a haunted country, and Dr. Nguyen Georges-Minh is a haunted man. In 1908, the French rule Saigon, but uneasily; dissent whispers through the corridors of the city. Each day, more Vietnamese rebels are paraded through the streets towards the gleaming blade of the guillotine, now a permanent fixture in the main square and a gruesome warning to those who would attempt to challenge colonial rule. It is a warning that Georges-Minh will not heed. A Vietnamese national and Paris-educated physician, he is obsessed by guilt over his material wealth and nurses a secret loathing for the French connections that have made him rich, even as they have torn his beloved country apart. With a close-knit group of his friends calling themselves the Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains, Georges-Minh plots revenge on the French for the savagery they have shown to the Vietnamese. And it falls to Georges-Minh to create a poison to mix into the Christmas dinner of a garrison of French soldiers. It is an act that will send an unmistakable message to the French: Get out of Vietnam. But the assassination attempt goes horribly wrong. Forced to flee into the deep jungles of the outer provinces, Georges-Minh must care for his infant son, manage the growing madness of his wife, and elude capture by the hill tribes and the small--but lethal--pockets of French sympathizers. Journey Prize winner Yasuko Thanh transports us into a vivid, historical Vietnam, one that is filled with chaotic streets, teeming marketplaces, squalid opium dens, and angry ghosts that exist side by side with the living."--From publisher.

Historical fiction.

Political fiction.

Canadian fiction.

Literary fiction.

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