BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • The Zenith

    (By Dương Thu Hương)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 21 MB (21,080 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 584 times
    Last checked 8 Hour ago!
    Author Dương Thu Hương
    “Book Descriptions: Memory is the one who builds you a permanent court of justice. Memory is the one at your side from whom you cannot run...

    A sweeping tale of thwarted love, political intrigue, and the price of power--"The Doctor Zhivago of Vietnam" (Boston Globe)--about Ho Chi Minh, the founding father of modern Vietnam, a man beloved by millions but shrouded in controversy and mystery

    Vietnam's most popular dissident writer, Duong Thu Huong has won acclaim for her exceptional lyricism and psychological acumen, as well as for her unflinching portraits of modern Vietnam and its culture and people. Built on 15 years of research, The Zenith imagines the final months in the life of Ho Chi Minh--president of North Vietnam from 1945 until his death in 1969--at an isolated mountain compound where he is imprisoned both physically and emotionally.

    Complex, daring, and elegiac, Huong's novel weaves Ho Chi Minh's story together with narratives of members of his inner circle and a village elder, illuminating the personal costs of political struggle, the addictive quality of power and influence, and how a tragedy can threaten to engulf not just one individual but an entire nation. Most radically, it is a multidimensional portrait of Ho Chi Minh himself; a man who is often painted as a saint, martyr, or puppet, but whom Huong portrays as a real person whose life encapsulated humanity's capacity for vision, greed, pain, love, and fallibility.

    An epic masterpiece that is both a gripping political thriller and a haunting excavation of the human heart, The Zenith is an unforgettable novel that leaves readers unsettled, transformed, and closer to life's fundamental mysteries.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    Bên rặng Tuyết Sơn

    ★★★★★

    Amar Jyoti

    Book 1

    The Tale of Kiều

    ★★★★★

    Nguyễn Du

    Book 1

    The Consolations of Philosophy

    ★★★★★

    Alain de Botton

    Book 1

    The Summer Book

    ★★★★★

    Tove Jansson

    Book 1

    Thương Nhớ Mười Hai

    ★★★★★

    Vũ Bằng

    Book 1

    Truyện ngắn Nguyễn Huy Thiệp

    ★★★★★

    Nguyễn Huy Thiệp

    Book 1

    Dumb Luck

    ★★★★★

    Vũ Trọng Phụng

    Book 1

    What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

    ★★★★★

    Michael J. Sandel

    Book 1

    Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

    ★★★★★

    Hannah Arendt

    Book 1

    The Sorrow of War

    ★★★★★

    Bảo Ninh

    Book 1

    Hench (Hench, #1)

    ★★★★★

    Natalie Zina Walschots

    Book 1

    Đêm Giữa Ban Ngày

    ★★★★★

    Vũ Thư Hiên

    Book 1

    Forgottenness

    ★★★★★

    Tanja Maljartschuk

    Book 1

    An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

    ★★★★★

    Shashi Tharoor

    Book 1

    Portrait of an Unknown Lady

    ★★★★★

    María Gainza

    Book 1

    Martin Eden

    ★★★★★

    Jack London