Publisher's Synopsis
Nghi~a Hiê?p Ky` Duyên, commonly known as "Chang Ca` Mum", is the best known novel by Nguyê~n Cha´nh Sa´t, the much revered writer, journalist, activist, educator of Cochinchine during the first half of the 20th Century. It's the adventurous story of a little girl abducted and raised in Cambodia until the final reunion with her own family, narrated in a uniquely casual, light-hearted but poetic prose, signature of the still much beloved Southern literature.