Amazing tale of Southeast Asian romance
Harry Hervey was one of the first and only American writers to create a substantive fiction story about SE Asia in that era.
"Early 20th century French Indochina: a place where the cultures, passions and blood of East and West mixed freely. In 1925, American author Harry Hervey saw white men "sowing the legend of Civilization in soil too fecund to resist any new growth," inspiring his most vivid novel. In a tale drunk with sensuous beauty, irony and dark intensity, we experience the life of one young girl-a congai-named Thi-Linh."
In 2014, DatAsia Press issued a new edition with a foreword by travel writer Pico Iyer and supplemental materials.
