Memories of a Pure Spring

<b>Memories of a Pure Spring</b> is a mesmerizing portrait of modern Vietnam and its people who struggle to survive under the complexities of a post-war regime. During the Vietnam war Hung a well-known composer becomes enchanted by the voice and beauty of a young peasant girl named Suong. He invites her to join his troupe; she becomes his wife and his star performer. But after the war Hung loses his job setting off a series of events that drive him and Suong into a destructive spiral. One of Vietnam's most popular writers <b>Duong Thu Huong</b> draws on her own experiences to describe life at the battlefront the conditions of a re-education camp and the texture and rhythm scents and sounds of a provincial Vietnamese city. Most of all she tells a haunting universal story of failed love.