{"id":2939,"date":"2013-04-01T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2013-03-28T08:40:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T12:40:16","slug":"2939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2939","title":{"rendered":"Give Away of FLESH by Khanh Ha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Flesh-Tour-Banner-FINAL.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2946 lazyload\" alt=\"Flesh Tour Banner FINAL\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Flesh-Tour-Banner-FINAL.png\" width=\"387\" height=\"158\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 387px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 387\/158;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2946\" alt=\"Flesh Tour Banner FINAL\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Flesh-Tour-Banner-FINAL.png\" width=\"387\" height=\"158\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;\">I am happy to announce the Give Away of one hardcover copy of FLESH by Khanh Ha. This give away is open to US, CAN, AUS &amp; England. So please leave a comment below to enter!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Flesh.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2945 lazyload\" alt=\"Flesh\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Flesh.png\" width=\"280\" height=\"426\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 280px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 280\/426;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2945\" alt=\"Flesh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Flesh.png\" width=\"280\" height=\"426\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;\">Publication Date: June 15, 2012<br \/>\nBlack Heron Publishing<br \/>\nHardcover; 368p<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;\">ISBN-10: 0930773888<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The setting is Tonkin (northern Vietnam) at the turn of the 20th century. A boy, Tai, witnesses the beheading of his father, a notorious bandit, and sets out to recover his head and then to find the man who betrayed his father to the authorities. On this quest, Tai&#8217;s entire world will shift. FLESH takes the reader into dark and delightful places in the human condition, places where allies are not always your friends, true love hurts, and your worst enemy may bring you the most comfort. In that emotionally harrowing world, Tai must learn to deal with new responsibilities in his life while at the same time acknowledging his bond, and his resemblance, to a man he barely knew&#8211;his father. Through this story of revenge is woven another story, one of love, but love purchased with the blood of murders Tai commits. A coming-of-age story, but also a love story, the sensuality of the author&#8217;s writing style belies the sometimes brutal world he depicts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Read an excerpt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorkhanhha.com\/flesh.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">View the Book Trailer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7KDhIINXJCg&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Praise for FLESH<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vietnam-born Ha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s beautifully described [. . .] first novel, set in his native country at the turn of the 20th century, opens with an infamous yet respected bandit being beheaded in front of his wife and their two young sons. This beginning casts a pall over the tale as T\u00c3\u00a0i, the eldest son, embarks on a far-reaching journey to retrieve his father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s skull, find a suitable burial site, and seek revenge on the man who betrayed his father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trust. Through a series of twists and turns [. . .] T\u00c3\u00a0i trades two years\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 service to a wealthy entrepreneur for land on which to bury the father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s remains. During that time, T\u00c3\u00a0i loses his heart to Xiaoli, an indentured servant working in an opium den, and will do anything\u00e2\u20ac\u201dincluding holding off on vengeance and killing a French soldier\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto protect her. In this dark, violent, and poetic saga, with disjointed cinematic vignettes that make it often read like a screenplay, characters are not who they seem. While this makes for a thrilling finale, what lingers [. . .] is Ha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s descriptive prose.&#8221; &#8211; Publishers Weekly<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;History marches on, and there will never be something like that ever again. Flesh is a historical novel set in pre-turn of the twentieth century Vietnam, a Vietnam so very different than the Vietnam known today. A young man is faced with the honest brutality of his world in his first sight. Trying to understand a world filled with such hate and such joys, and how it can twist young minds, Flesh is a strong addition to any literary historical fiction collection, much recommended.&#8221; &#8211; Midwest Book Review<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Author-Photo.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2944\" alt=\"Author Photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Author-Photo.bmp\" width=\"185\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\nAbout the Author<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Khanh Ha was born in Hue, the former capital of Vietnam. During his teen years, he began writing short stories, which won him several awards in the Vietnamese adolescent magazines. He studied Journalism at Ohio University and learned the craft of writing under Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon) and Walter Tevis (The Man Who Fell to Earth).\u00c2\u00a0 FLESH (Black Heron Press, June 2012) is his first novel (literary fiction).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;\">For more information, please visit Khanh Ha&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorkhanhha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">WEBSITE<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/authorkhanhha.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">BLOG<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am happy to announce the Give Away of one hardcover copy of FLESH by Khanh Ha. This give away is open to US, CAN, AUS &amp; England. So please leave a comment below to enter! \u00c2\u00a0 Publication Date: June 15, 2012 Black Heron Publishing Hardcover; 368p ISBN-10: 0930773888 The setting is Tonkin (northern Vietnam) &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2939\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Give Away of FLESH by Khanh Ha<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}