Novel without a name

Duong Thu Huong

In 1991, after sending abroad a manuscript of her Novel Without a Name - the first novel by a northern veteran to chronicle wide spread disillusionment with the war effort and party leadership, Huong was imprisoned for seven months without trial.

This is a piercing and unfogettable tale of the horror and spiritual weariness of war narrated by Quan, a North Vietnamese soldier of the people, who joined the army at the age of eighteen full of idealism for the Communist Party and its cause of national liberation.

'An extraordinary and profoundly tragic novel... it is Duong Thu Huong's vision and its resonant imagery that makes this book a work of art' Boston Sunday Globe