![]() Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds the three women together. Along the way, we meet a young boy sent to a boarding school in the mountains for the métis children of French expatriates just before Vietnam declares its independence from colonial rule in 1945 two Frenchmen trying to start a business with the Vietnam War on the horizon and the employees of the Saigon Spirit Eradication Co., called to investigate strange occurrences in a farmhouse on the edge of a forest. Over the course of the novel, the fates of these three women will lock together in an exhilarating series of nested narratives. In 2009, pressed into a dangerous scheme by a former lover, a woman captures a rare two-headed cobra.Īnd in 2011, a young, unhappy American living in Saigon with her sort-of boyfriend disappears without a trace. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1986, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed by the experience. ![]() Part puzzle, part revenge tale, part ghost story, this kaleidoscopic novel set in Vietnam spins half a century of history and folklore into the story of a missing woman. ![]()
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