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In THE TAPESTRIES, based loosely on the life of the author's grandfather, who, in the early 1900s, was a professional embroiderer in the court of the last king of Vietnam-Kien Nguyen has reimagined his grandfather's amazing story to weave a tapestry of his own-a stunning and page-turning novel.
Dan Nguyen is seven years old when he witnesses his father brutally beheaded by the mayor in a bid for power. Dan's wife, Ven, 20 years his senior, makes him promise to one day avenge his father's death. In order to protect him until he is old enough to defend his family's honor, Ven hides Dan as a servant in the house of the enemy-and Dan falls in love with the one person he can never have, the mayor's beautiful granddaughter Tai May. Dan's journey from slavery into scandal, and finally to the royal court where he has the chance to win Tai May's heart, is a story of spellbinding drama and intrigue, and, ultimately, the story of a great love affair.
- Sales Rank: #2854520 in Books
- Published on: 2002-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.50" h x 1.13" w x 6.33" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 311 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Nguyen follows his acclaimed memoir, The Unwanted (2001), with a daringly complex and vividly imagined debut novel about a boy who fights to reclaim his family's royal legacy in Vietnam at the turn of the century. Seven-year-old Dan Nguyen is married in childhood to a 27-year-old family servant named Ven, who hides and protects the boy when rivals come to execute Dan's parents. But Dan's strange union with Ven is disrupted when Ven contracts malaria and she is forced to sell him into slavery to the mayor's family. Dan's stint as a slave proves fateful, though, when he becomes the personal servant of the beautiful Tai May and the two fall in love. In spite of Dan's station, Tai May chooses him over a wealthy young suitor. When the spurned suitor spies on Dan and finds out about his marriage to Ven, Dan is forced to flee the family. The dizzying intricacy of the plotting occasionally becomes a bit overwhelming as Nguyen tracks Ven's tragic fate and Dan's search for Tai May while attempting to piece together a treasure map that has been laid out as an interlocking series of body tattoos. But the beauty of Nguyen's stately, ornate prose-perfectly suited to the rigidly formal customs of Vietnamese royalty-serves him well as the complex plot unfolds. The scope of the tale and its grace and power make this a formidable first novel.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Nguyen follows up The Unwanted, his memoir of growing up Amerasian in postwar Vietnam, with a first novel based on stories from his grandfather's past. Nguyen relates an epic tale of family, greed, revenge, and love set in Vietnam during the early decades of the 20th century. During this time, there was growing discontent with colonial rule as well as greater acceptance of Western ways. The hero, Dan Nguyen, is married at the age of seven to Ven, nearly 20 years his senior. Shortly after their marriage, Dan's family falls victim to local rivalries and revolutionary intrigue, and the newlyweds witness the brutal murders of Dan's father and two of his three wives. Ven urges her reluctant child-husband to seek revenge, but his quest stalls when he falls in love with his enemy's granddaughter. An exciting tale that takes many twists and turns before finally ending with Dan's telling his stories to his young grandson, this work is marred somewhat by its fairy-tale qualities and minimal character development. Recommended for public and academic fiction collections.
Rebecca Stuhr, Grinnell Coll. Libs., IA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Nguyen's powerful debut novel is based on the story of his grandfather's life in Vietnam in the early 1900s. Dan Nguyen is born into a wealthy family and married off at seven to Ven, a woman 20 years older than he is. Ven is expected to serve her new family, and she dutifully accepts her role. When Dan's father and his first two wives are arrested on trumped-up piracy charges, Dan's life changes overnight. After witnessing Dan's father's execution, Ven knows that she must hide Dan for his own safety. She takes Dan to the house of his father's mortal enemy--the man who had him executed, Mayor Toan. She sells Dan to the family as a servant, knowing Toan will never think to look for Dan in his own house. As Dan grows to adolescence, he falls in love with Toan's beautiful granddaughter, Tai May. Though his love is reciprocated, the two face seemingly insurmountable obstacles to their love. Nguyen's first novel is a thrilling tale based on an extraordinary life. Kristine Huntley
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Most helpful customer reviews
34 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
A beautiful, quintessentially Vietnamese story.
By alainviet
I have read many books written in English about Vietnam, but found only a few that clearly reflect the soul and spirit of the Vietnamese: "The tapestries" is one of them.
The story took place between 1916 and 1932 in a small village near Hue, the Imperial City of Vietnam. This is a book about commoners, middle class people and royalty. It deals with a wicked magistrate and his granddaughter Mai but also a heroine Ven, who at age 15 was given in marriage to then seven year-old Dan. There are also a minister, a eunuch, the queen's lady-in-waiting, and a time-teller (similar to Quasimodo in the Hunchback of Notre Dame).
The story then moved to Hue and we are given a glimpse of the slowly fading monarchy. There were plots, murders, injustice, hate, love, and redemption throughout of the book. The plots were as thick as the tropical jungle (like any Vietnamese story) with a twist at every corner. The author kept us guessing (wrong most of the time) and held us in suspense until the next chapter.
I found the novel remarkable and I am certain the reader will appreciate and thank the author for bringing something exotic to the American public.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Great story.
By isabelle m bromstead
One of my favorite books. My mother read it before me & loved it and wanted me to read it. I finally read it after my mother passed away & loved it & was sad she was gone & wasn't able to talk abut the book. I lent the book & never got it back so I bought again to read it a 2nd time. So good.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
A Flawed Gem
By A Customer
This is a gem of a book with many qualities that have obviously endeared it to the other reviewers here. It's a good read for most readers, even if it suffers from several flaws.
The writing is mostly good, if somewhat artificial at times, especially when the author seemed to overreach in trying to be too lyrical. Behind the words, the story struggles to be told, even though one has probably guessed what it would be after the first two chapters. The historical background seems of uncertain authenticity and could have benefited from better research.
Somehow I wish that the author had not yielded to his editors and done things like reversing the traditional order of Vietnamese names, or making them easier to pronounce in English but unrecognizable in Vietnamese. After all, how would Americans feel if they were to read a Vietnamese book where George Bush is referred to as Bush George?
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