{"product_id":"mysterious-fragrance-of-the-yellow-mountains","title":"Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow can you stand up to tyranny when your own identity is in turmoil?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVietnam is a haunted country, and Dr. Nguyen Georges-Minh is a haunted man. In 1908, the French rule Saigon, but uneasily; dissent whispers through the corridors of the city. Each day, more Vietnamese rebels are paraded through the streets towards the gleaming blade of the guillotine, now a permanent fixture in the main square and a gruesome warning to those who would attempt to challenge colonial rule.\u003cbr\u003e     It is a warning that Georges-Minh will not heed. A Vietnamese national and Paris-educated physician, he is obsessed by guilt over his material wealth and nurses a secret loathing for the French connections that have made him rich, even as they have torn his beloved country apart.\u003cbr\u003e     With a close-knit group of his friends calling themselves the Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains, Georges-Minh plots revenge on the French for the savagery they have shown to the Vietnamese. And it falls to Georges-Minh to create a poison to mix into the Christmas dinner of a garrison of French soldiers. It is an act that will send an unmistakable message to the French: Get out of Vietnam.\u003cbr\u003e     But the assassination attempt goes horribly wrong. Forced to flee into the deep jungles of the outer provinces, Georges-Minh must care for his infant son, manage the growing madness of his wife, and elude capture by the hill tribes and the small--but lethal--pockets of French sympathizers.\u003cbr\u003e     Journey Prize winner Yasuko Thanh transports us into a vivid, historical Vietnam, one that is filled with chaotic streets, teeming marketplaces, squalid opium dens, and angry ghosts that exist side by side with the living.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2017 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the 2017 Amazon.ca\/Books in Canada First Novel Award\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hamish Hamilton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44475331576008,"sku":"BKPB10102745","price":12.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/2034\/0168\/files\/Mysterious_Fragrance_of_the_Yellow_Mountains.jpg?v=1740279050","url":"https:\/\/theblossomingbookshop.com\/products\/mysterious-fragrance-of-the-yellow-mountains","provider":"The Blossoming Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}