by Thu Hương Dương · ISBN 9782298008500
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«Itinéraire d'enfance» is Duong Thu Huong's coming-of-age novel, published by France Loisirs (396 pages, in French).
Bê, a twelve-year-old girl, lives in Rêu; her father, a soldier, is at the northern border. Expelled for defending a classmate, she runs away with her best friend to reunite with him. They travel across northern Vietnam by train, on foot and by bus, work and meet ethnic minorities. A coming-of-age novel about freedom, with autobiographical echoes.
The work was originally published in 1985 in Vietnam; this French edition is from 2008. The cover bears the subtitle «roman».
For readers of coming-of-age novels and Vietnamese literature.
Dương Thu Hương is a Vietnammese author and political dissident.
