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Mysterious fragrance of the Yellow Mountains / Yasuko Thanh.
In 1908, the French rule Saigon, but uneasily; dissent whispers through the corridors of the city. A Vietnamese national and Paris-educated physician, Dr. Nguyen Georges-Minh is obsessed by guilt over his material wealth and nurses a secret loathing for the French connections that have made him rich, even as they have torn his beloved country apart. With a close-knit group of his friends calling themselves the Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains, Georges-Minh plots revenge on the French for the savagery they have shown to the Vietnamese. And it falls to Georges-Minh to create a poison to mix into the Christmas dinner of a garrison of French soldiers. But the assassination attempt goes horribly wrong. Forced to flee into the deep jungles of the outer provinces, Georges-Minh must care for his infant son, manage the growing madness of his wife, and elude capture by the hill tribes and the small--but lethal--pockets of French sympathizers.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780670068784 (paperback)
- Physical Description: xii, 301 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Canada Books Inc., a Penguin Random House Company, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Novel. CatMonthString:june.16 |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Subject: | Attempted assassination > Fiction. French > Vietnam > Fiction. Nationalism > Vietnam > Fiction. Vietnam > Fiction. Physicians > Vietnam > Fiction. Nineteen hundreds (Decade) > Fiction. Vietnam > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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- 9 of 10 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 0 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prince Rupert Library | Than (Text) | 33294001996412 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-09-25 |
