by Thu Hương Dương · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253124023
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«Itinéraire d'enfance» is the coming-of-age novel by Duong Thu Huong, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (346 pages, in French).
In Vietnam in the late 1950s, Bê, a twelve-year-old girl, is expelled from school for defending a classmate. She runs away with her best friend to join her father, a soldier on the northern border. The two teenagers travel across the country on foot, by train and by bus, moving from a tiger hunt to exposing a faith healer.
Translated from the Vietnamese by Phuong Dang Tran. Originally published in 1985 as Hành trình ngày thơ ấu; this French edition is from 2009.
For readers interested in Vietnamese literature and travel and coming-of-age novels.
Dương Thu Hương is a Vietnammese author and political dissident.
