Read the World: Vietnam

Books by authors from Vietnam or set in/about Vietnam.

Updated February 2, 2024
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The sorrow of war a novel of North Vietnam
Bảo Ninh.
Paper Book
The daring and controversial novel that took the world by storm-- a story of politics, selfhood, survival, and war. Featured in The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick airing September 2017. Bao Ninh, a former North Vietnamese soldier, provides a strikingly honest...
A time far past [electronic resource]
Lê, Lựu.
Ebook
"This is a fine novel -- interesting and generous, more historical than political, as Sai in his life (much of it as a soldier) crosses the hard roads of war, tradition, and party lines". -- Grace Paley
Memory is another country : women of the Vietnamese diaspora
Nguyen, Nathalie Huynh Chau.
Paper Book
2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The act of remembering is a means of bringing the past alive and an imaginative way of dealing with loss. It has been the subject of much recent scholarship and is of particular relevance at a time of widespread transnational migration....
The sympathizer
Nguyen, Viet Thanh
Paper Book
Now an HBO Limited Seriesfrom Executive Producers Park Chan-wook and Robert Downey Jr., StreamingExclusively on Max Winner of the 2016Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the 2016 EdgarAward for Best First Novel Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medalfor...
A Vietcong memoir
Trương, Như Tảng.
Paper Book
"An absorbing and moving autobiography...An important addition not only to the literature of Vietnam but to the larger human story of hope, violence and disillusion in the political life of our era."--Chicago Tribune When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho...

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