Haunted history
Oct 10, 2021
2 minutes
by ANGELIQUE KASMARA
n Violet Kupersmith’s immersive debut novel, snakes and ghosts form an integral part of the plot. Serpents stir in rubber-tree plantations in the countryside, spirits possess the bodies of fluffy dogs, and both are intertwined with the fortunes found and lost amid Vietnam’s turbulent history, from pre-colonial times to the present.
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