A Hundred Suns by Karin Tanabe, April 7, 2020, St. Martin's Press
Genre: historical fiction
Setting: 1930s Indochine (Vietnam)
An American woman accompanies her French husband, a Michelin heir, to his vast rubber plantations in Indochina. Vietnam is a French colony during this period, and the novel focuses on the lavish lifestyles of the French in Indochina of the 1930s.
Book beginning:
Jessie November 20, 1933
The house of a hundred suns. That's what my tai xe called it. The first time he ferried me to the train station, in a black Delahaye as polished as a gem stone, he slowly circled the building, avoiding the rawboned rickshaw drivers. I craned my neck, watching as the car's exhaust left a trail behind us like a mollusk's track, and tried my best to concentrate on his words, not the quick tempo of my heart.
Page 56:
"Did you arrive today? You must have. And then you are dragged out to the jungle on your first night in Hanoi."
"I don't mind," I lied.
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