by Dương Thu Hương · S. Wespieser éditeur · tapa dura · ISBN 9782286032432
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«Itinéraire d'enfance» is the coming-of-age novel by Dương Thu Hương, published by S. Wespieser éditeur in hardcover (380 pages, in French).
Bê, twelve years old, lives in the village of Rêtu with her mother, a teacher, while her father is posted to the northern border. Expelled from school for defending a classmate, she sets out with her friend Loan on a journey to join him. The two teenagers cross the north by train, on foot or by bus and discover freedom among diverse people and landscapes.
Originally published in Vietnamese in 1985 as «Hành trình ngày thơ ấu», this 2007 edition is the first French translation.
For readers of coming-of-age novels and fiction set in Asia, with a girl as protagonist.
Dương Thu Hương is a Vietnammese author and political dissident.
