Spread over a little more than 300 pages, ‘The Mountains Sing’ by Nguyen Phan Que Mai is a historical-fiction book set in Vietnam. It starts off in Ha-Noi (1972), the protagonist is a young schoolgirl called Huong, walking to school with her grandmother – a teacher. In an ironical twist of fate, in the very second page, just when Phuong’s granny promises her favourite meal would await her to celebrate a brief break from bombings in their city, a siren pierces through the sky, warning citizens that the Americans Bombers are approaching…
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