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Written by Camilla Gibb
Format(s): EPUB
Language: English
Camilla Gibb鈥檚 previous novel, 2005鈥檚 Scotiabank Giller Prize鈥搉ominated Sweetness in the Belly, was set mostly in Ethiopia. For her newest work, the author turns her attention to Vietnam. The novel鈥檚 central character, Old Man Hung, is an itinerant pho seller in Hanoi who has forged an extended family from the son and grandson of an illustrious poet. Hung has honoured the poet鈥檚 memory since the latter disappeared after publishing a politically charged magazine in the 1950s.
One morning, Maggie, a curator at a posh hotel in the new Vietnam, appears at Hung鈥檚 cart searching for information about her father, a dissident artist who vanished after the fall of Saigon. Maggie serves as the catalyst in the lives of Hung, whose history involves a difficult and painful journey through Vietnam鈥檚 tumultuous past, and the young man Tu鈥? who has had a much easier life working as a tour guide for vacationing Westerners.
The Beauty of Humanity Movement starts slowly. Gibb carefully sets up the many strands of the story, shuttling back and forth from present to past. She also provides a primer on the city鈥檚 iconic soup; the reader comes to understand that the history of pho mirrors the history of Vietnam and the trajectory of Hung鈥檚 life. At one point, Hung is so impoverished he is forced to make his noodles out of pond grass.
The novel is full of book-club friendly themes such as lost love, forgotten memories, changing values, displacement, and family. These themes work for the most part, but certain details, such as the inclusion of the Vietnamese version of American Idol, feel more like convenient devices than necessary parts of the story.
Gibb brings The Beauty of Humanity Movement to a poignant close, reconnecting the story鈥檚 disparate strands. However, certain earlier scenes 鈥?such as one in which Hung returns to his village to find it decimated by his own country鈥檚 soldiers 鈥?don鈥檛 quite come alive, and as a result the emotion of the story occasionally gets lost.
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