Victorine

Description:

Witnessing Nazi patrols in the seaside town where she is spending the final years of her life, Victorine examines her past, from the willow-lined canals of her childhood home to her nights along the Mekong River at the turn of the century.

subjects: Women teachers,  Older women,  Reminiscing in old age,  Parent and adult child,  French,  Fiction,  Teachers,  Love stories,  Runaway wives,  History,  France, fiction,  Teachers, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Vietnamese fiction (French),  French fiction

Places: Vietnam

Times: 1858-1945