Written by a Vietnamese dissident, the novel--set during the Vietnam War--is told from the point of view of a disillusioned Communist soldier whose life is in ruins as the North Vietnamese approach final victory.
Written by one of Vietnam's most beloved writers, this is an exquisite portrait of three Vietnamese women struggling to survive in a society where subservience to men is expected and Communist corruption crushes every dream. "Astonishingly powerful . . . a beautifully told story of a civil war within a family".--The Los Angeles Times Book Review.
From Vietnam's most popular writer and famous dissident comes a mesmerizing novel about a tragic love triangle between characters whose destinies have been irrevocably altered by the absurdity of war. No Man's Land is set in a hamlet in the countryside of central Vietnam immediately following the end of the war in 1975, where a young woman, ...
In his first collection of short stories, Linh Dinh explores the weird, atrocious, fond, ongoing intimacies between Vietnam and the United States. In his stories, the characters, linked by a common past, are driven by an intense and angry energy. The politics of race and sex anchor Dinh's work as his men and women negotiate their way in a post ...
One of the bestselling Vietnamese novels of all time. A searing love story set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. Memories Of A Pure Spring was a huge bestseller when it was published in Vietnam in 1976 (it was subsequently, and still is, banned there). It is Huong's most commercial and engaging novel which deals with the aftermath of the ...
Linh, the wife of a Vietnamese journalist, learns that her husband is a tool of the state, and leaves him. He has an affair with a bohemian writer; she falls in love with a married artist. As a result of his experiences, the journalist finds an untapped vein of integrity in himself, but his moral conversion fails to restore his estranged wife. ...
This novel, by a writer whose work is banned in her native Vietnam, is the story of two musicians--a singer and a composer--in postwar Vietnam, where their turbulent relationship is complicated by issues of censorship, prison camps, and government corruption.
Phuong Linh, the heroine of this novel, is compelled to face her illusions and "live in truth". The increasingly corrupt Communist regime leads her to a wrenching personal choice: whether or not to divorce her journalist husband. She soon discovers that virtually everyone has been corrupted.
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Da Nguyen
Date Published: 1990
Description: G+ Size: 8vo (7.5" to 9.5" tall); In Vietnamese; Clean copy, no markings by previous owners; Cover somewhat rubbed and soiled, rear cover and last few pages show some dampstaining; Very little age-toning; Spine somewhat rolled but sound; Corners and ends of spine lightly bumped; Tight copy. read more
Edition: Uncorrected bound galleys of the first American edition.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: William Morrow and Company
Date Published: 1992
Description: A fine copy. [VIETNAM FICTION]. DUONG, Thu Huong. PARADISE OF THE BLIND [A Novel]. Translated from the Vietnamese by Phan Huy Duong and Nina McPherson. Glossy pictorial wrappers, 269 pages. The first Vietnamese novel ever published in the United States, it will transform the way Americans perceive Vietnam. read more
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