Beyond Illusions

Duong Thu Huong was born in Vietnam in 1947. At the age of twenty, she led a Communist Youth Brigade sent to the front during the Vietnam War. Of the volunteer group of forty, she was one of three survivors. A vocal advocate of human rights and democratic reform, Huong was expelled from the Communist Party in 1990 before she was arrested and imprisoned without trial for seven months in 1991. The author continues to live and write in Hanoi Translators Nina McPherson and Phan Huy Duong live in Paris. They have also translated Duong Thu Huong's Paradise of the Blind (1993), Novel Without a Name (1995), and Memories of a Pure Spring (2000)Huong, Duong Thu is the author of 'Beyond Illusions' with ISBN 9780786864171 and ISBN 0786864176.