In Loan – From the Life of a Phoenix, Isabelle Müller tells the true emancipation story of her mother Loan, a headstrong and rebellious Vietnamese woman who, at just twelve years old, fled a forced marriage to find her way to self-reliance and a free, self-determined life on a long and often dangerous odyssey through Vietnam, France, and Algeria.
The historical backdrop to her search for identity is the cultural and political upheaval brought about by French colonization, the Japanese invasion at the end of World War II, the division of Vietnam in the 1950s, and France’s war against Algeria in the 1960s.
Loan – From the Life of a Phoenix gives readers insight into a fairytale-like, yet at times archaic and brutal, culture in China’s neighboring country. It tells of dignity, tolerance, and acceptance, of an exotic culture from an almost forgotten time, thus closing an important literary gap in the history of Vietnam.
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