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
Bảo Ninh.
Paper Book
Kien's job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. He knows the area well - this was where, in the dry season of 1969, his battalion was obliterated by American napalm and helicopter gunfire. Kien was one of only ten survivors. This book is his attempt to understand the eleven years...
A time far past
Lê, Lụ́u
Paper Book
This epic novel presents a sweeping portrait of war and peace in northern Vietnam from the defeat of the French to the mid-1980s. The story follows the odyssey of Giang Minh Sai, the son of a Confucian scholar in the rural Red River delta, from his early childhood through his decorated service...
The sympathizer
Nguyen, Viet Thanh
Paper Book
Now an HBO Limited Series from Executive Producers Park Chan-wook and Robert Downey Jr., Streaming Exclusively on Max Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence...
Two cakes fit for a king : folktales from Vietnam
Nguyet Cam, Nguyen
Ebook
No detailed description available for "Two Cakes Fit for a King".
A Vietcong memoir
Trương, Như Tảng.
Paper Book

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