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The Beauty of Humanity Movement

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by Camilla Gibb


  Acknowledgements

  WITH LOVE AND THANKS to Heather Conway, Hà Qung Phng, Trn Th Lan, Drew Harris and Sherifah Mazwari for the shared experiences in Hanoi.

  With gratitude to Maya Mavjee, Nita Pronovost, Jane Fleming, Martha Kanya-Forstner, Anne McDermid and Martha Magor for the editorial guidance and interest throughout the course of writing this book, and to the Canada Council for the Arts for support.

  With thanks to Kris Risk for encouraging me to change directions and Chris Kelly for unfailing friendship and the occasional space in which to write. Thanks to the staff of Hanoi 3 Seasons, Kim’s Café and Mimi’s on Gerrard Street East for the ph and to Anh of Hidden Hanoi for sharing recipes and stories.

  And to Sir Edward Fennessy (1912–2009) for always being my grandpa.

  Copyright © 2010 Camilla Gibb

  All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication, reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system without the prior written consent of the publisher—or in the case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, license from the Canadian Copyright Licensing agency—is an infringement of the copyright law.

  Doubleday Canada and colophon are registered trademarks

  Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

  Gibb, Camilla,1968-

  The beauty of humanity movement / Camilla Gibb.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-37446-2

  I. Title.

  PS8563.I2437B42 2010 C813′.54 C2010-902487-7

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Published in Canada by Doubleday Canada,

  a division of Random House of Canada Limited

  Visit Random House of Canada Limited’s website: www.randomhouse.ca

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  Table of Contents

  Cover

  Other Books by this Author

  Title Page

  Dedication

  Chapter 1 - A Note of Grace

  Chapter 2 - A Seam Between Worlds

  Chapter 3 - New Dawn

  Chapter 4 - The Beauty of Humanity

  Chapter 5 - Whole Fruit

  Chapter 6 - The Quiet Inside

  Chapter 7 - An Inverted World

  Chapter 8 - Dandy Peacocks

  Chapter 9 - Propaganda and Political Education

  Chapter 10 - Shit on a Canvas

  Chapter 11 - Our Place in Buddha’s Universe

  Chapter 12 - The Memory of Taste

  Chapter 13 - The Campaign to Rectify Errors

  Chapter 14 - The Real Vietnam

  Chapter 15 - A Proper Friend

  Chapter 16 - The Walls

  Chapter 17 - An Emotional Vocabulary

  Chapter 18 - Bright Star

  Chapter 19 - The Lady Next Door

  Chapter 20 - The Rainbow That Fell to Earth

  Chapter 21 - Community Service

  Chapter 22 - A Note Hangs in Mid-Air

  Chapter 23 - Voices of the Dead

  Chapter 24 - A Stone in His Heart

  Chapter 25 - Provenance

  Chapter 26 - An Old Man’s Destiny

  Chapter 27 - The Afterlife

  Chapter 28 - Ph Nhân Vãn

  Author’s Note

  Acknowledgements

  Copyright

 

 

 


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