Annam
Format: Hardcover
ISBN13: 9780811213301
Hardcover|9780811213301
✨ Featured Offer
Used, Like New
$12.89
List Price: $12.95
🚚
See all 5 offers from $11.84 FREE standard delivery by: 31 Mar 2026
Overview
In 1788, a handful of French monks and nuns set sail for Vietnam. There they preach the Gospels to the peasants of these unknown tropics, and only by chance learn from passing ships about the terror of the Revolution, the death of their King, and the oppression of their Church. After 1792 there is no further news--Europe has forgotten them. In their years of trial these valorous men and women both abandon everything and reinvent everything. The jungle, by its ordeals and its beauties, transforms them; in it they will live and die, having forgotten God in the struggle. Mr. Bataille, who was only 21 when he wrote this short, glittering jewel (which is flawlessly translated from the French by Richard Howard), writes with poetic simplicity and depth. In Howard's superb translation, Bataille's style, built around short sentences, achieves a cumulative lyricism that poignantly captures the unfulfilled promise and tragedy of a historic moment that preceded the French conquest of Saigon by more than half a century.
| ISBN-13 | 9780811213301 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0811213307 |
| Weight | 0.41 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.20 x 0.60 x 7.90 In |
| List Price | $12.95 |
| Format | Hardcover |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Pages | 112 pages |
| Publisher | New Directions |
| Published On | 1996-09-17 |
View All Offers
Sort by:
Price
Condition
Seller
Seller Comments
Price
Used, Very Good
Seller details
Dunaway Books
Saint Louis, MO, USA
Dust jacket is price clipped and gift inscription from prior owner on title page.
Free delivery by: 31 Mar 2026
Used, Good
Seller details
BayStateBooks
North Smithfield, RI, USA
The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact including the dust jacket if origina...
Free delivery by: 31 Mar 2026
✨ Used, Like New
Seller details
The Book Bin
Salem, OR, USA
Translated by Richard Howard. Novel set in 1788, following a handful of French monks, who set sail...
Free delivery by: 31 Mar 2026
Used, Like New
Seller details
Gian Luigi Fine Books, Inc.
Albany, NY, USA
Free delivery by: 31 Mar 2026
Used, Very Good
Seller details
Ash Grove Heirloom Books
Pueblo, CO, USA
Book Book has light bump to lower corner of back board. Dust jacker protected by removable Brodart ...
Free delivery by: 31 Mar 2026