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Beauty of Humanity Movement

Camilla Gibb

ISBN: 9781848877931
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Atlantic Books
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For anyone who loves Louis de Bernieres comes the new novel from Trillium Award-winner Camilla Gibb. The Beauty of Humanity Movement is set in contemporary Vietnam, a country undergoing momentous change, and tells the story of how family is defined - not by blood but by the heart.

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Tu' is a young tour guide working in Hanoi. As he leads bands of Westerners on 'war tours' through the scarred landscape of Vietnam, he wonders what it is that his clients see - and what they miss entirely. Maggie is Vietnamese by birth but has lived most her life in the U.S. Returning to her homeland, she sifts through history for clues as to the fate of her dissident father. Witness to both their stories, Old Man Hung has lived through decades of political upheaval. But Hung has found a way to provide hope in his waterside community: The Beauty of Humanity Movement. The Beauty of Humanity Movement is a keenly observed and skillfully wrought novel about the reverberation of conflict through generations, the enduring legacy of art, and the redemption, and renewal, of long-lost love.
 
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