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6) Tương tư
Author
Series
Publisher
Nhà xuá̂t bản Hội nhà văn
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Vietnamese
Description
Collection of short stories about a boy named Cédric Dupont.
12) Thằn lằn
Author
Publisher
Nhã Nam
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Vietnamese
Description
A beautiful young woman with a tattoo in the shape of a lizard captures the attention of a young psychiatrist, in one of the 6 short stories in this collection by a Japanese woman writer known for her unusual themes.
16) Rạch mặt
Author
Publisher
NXB Văn Học
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Vietnamese
Description
An anthology of 78 very short stories. In one story, a sculptor makes many lovely statues, but all have the same lovely face, and he slashes the faces after his work is complete.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
When it first appeared in 1987, the title story of this collection of stories by Nguyen Huy Thiep caused a sensation in Vietnam. Not since the Communist revolution had readers found as stark and compelling a view of their world as The general retires offered them. Written in spare, succinct prose, it captures the despair of an old general who, after many years of devoted service to his country, is alienated by the emptiness of the society into which...
Publisher
Curbstone Press
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Thirty-eight post-Vietnam War stories by American and Vietnamese writers, interspersed between stanzas of the poem "A walk in the garden of heaven" by George Evans. In Nguyen Quang Lap's The Sound of Harness Bells, a couple reunited at war's end try to have a child and the result is a monster, the wife having been gassed by Agent Orange, while in Tim O'Brien's Speaking of Courage, a decorated veteran reflects, that "courage was not always a matter...