Women on the Island, The - A Novel Monastic Life With the acceleration of global

With the acceleration of global migration

One of a very few Western journalists to visit North Korea in 2004

by Sean Trembath (Bangkok Post

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Women on the Island, The - A Novel Monastic Life With the acceleration of globalTranslated by Phan Thanh Hao, Celeste Bacchi, and Wayne Karlin Deep in the forested Vietnamese island of Cat Bac, a jungle seethes with the force of its own history. Haunted by agonies of temptation and frustration, "the women on the island" are prisoners of the power of place, the power of the past, the power of desire and constraint. Yet like the jungle of jackfruit trees and bamboo itself, desire is a force that cannot be subdued. This novel