Ryerson University is thrilled to present award-winning poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai.

Presented by the English Department at Ryerson University and Thomas Allen & Son, generously supported by Reel Asian Film Festival and the Asian Canadian Women’s Alliance.

About The Event

The Mountain Sings will be Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s first novel in English set to be released in March 2020. The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Nội, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hồ Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that tore not just her beloved country, but her family apart.