They say that the history of Vietnam can be found in a bowl of pho, and Old Man Hu'ng makes the best in all Hanoi. Each morning he sets out from his shantytown home towards the sleeping city, in search of a quiet corner in which to assemble his makeshift kitchen and start cooking. One day a new customer takes her place in the line of regulars at his cart - a striking young Vietnamese-American woman named Maggie Ly. Maggie was just a young girl when, with Saigon about to fall, she fled with her mother to relative safety in ...
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They say that the history of Vietnam can be found in a bowl of pho, and Old Man Hu'ng makes the best in all Hanoi. Each morning he sets out from his shantytown home towards the sleeping city, in search of a quiet corner in which to assemble his makeshift kitchen and start cooking. One day a new customer takes her place in the line of regulars at his cart - a striking young Vietnamese-American woman named Maggie Ly. Maggie was just a young girl when, with Saigon about to fall, she fled with her mother to relative safety in America - leaving her father, a dissident artist, to an uncertain fate. Her family was never reunited. Now an art curator in her thirties, she has returned in search of the missing details of her father's life - and death. So when she hears of an old pho vendor rumoured to have sheltered Hanoi's radical artists during the city's darkest days, she seizes the glimmer of hope he offers. Maggie's guide through the chaos of Hanoi is a street-smart young man named Tu -as fluent in the ways of Western culture as he is governed by his own. Together the old man, the returning daughter, and the young entrepreneur become unlikely friends and allies. And as their stories gradually unfurl, each adds a new layer to a larger, more complex and largely untold story: the story of modern Vietnam.
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