The Mountains Sing – Audiobook Online

“The Mountains Sing” is a novel that tells the story of a family’s experiences during the Vietnam War. It is set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War’s politics, upheaval, and social change, and it explores the impact of war on ordinary people. The story is told through the alternating perspectives of grandmother Diệu Lan, who lived through the wars in Vietnam, and her granddaughter Hương, who is growing up in post-war Vietnam. Through their stories, the author paints a rich and complex picture of the Vietnamese people’s resilience, endurance, and hope in the face of immense hardship. Despite the brutal and traumatic moments in the story, it celebrates the beauty of the human spirit and the strength of familial love.

• The Mountains Sing

• By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
• Narrated by: Quyen Ngo

Featuring the grandeur of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and Yaa Gyasi’s Homecoming and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an overarching, multi-generational story of the Tran family, Set in the Vietnam War.

Tran Dieu Lan, born in 1920, was forced to leave the family farm with six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hanoi, her young niece, Huong, comes of age when her parents and uncles take to the Ho Chi Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that has not only torn her beloved country apart. her but her whole family.

Vivid, engaging and imbued with the language and traditions of Vietnam, The Mountains Sing brings to life the human costs of this conflict from the perspective of the Vietnamese people themselves, while at the same time giving them We see the true power of kindness and hope. The Mountains Sing is the first novel in English by Vietnamese poet Nguyen Phan Que Mai.

This story is especially meaningful to me because I grew up in the Philippines and used to fly over Saigon on my way to high school in Singapore in the late 1960s. The story is well written and makes Vietnamese history a great one. should be alive. It also provides an understanding of the issues and impacts of the Vietnam War on that country. There are many difficult passages, but the triumph of loyalty and love for family and longtime friends is heartwarming.

I’m half Vietnamese so this spoke to me. I grew up in the US with a Vietnamese influence from my mother, who doesn’t often talk about her life there or is likely to let go of more difficult memories.

This book helped me better understand her culture, my cultural history, and her upbringing in a war situation.

I was just listening to the book while driving so sometimes my mind wanders making it hard to follow as the voice shifts from niece to grandma. But that’s on me.

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