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The Sorrow of War is the first novel of the Vietnam War told from the North Vietnamese perspective. Readers follow Kien as a young soldier and, later, as a writer struggling to come to grips with the savageries he has witnessed. Takes its place alongside the greatest war novel of the century, All...

A collection of short stories by one of the most highly regarded Vietnamese/American writers whose work explores the strange, atrocious, fond, and ongoing intimacies between Vietnam and the United States. The stories delve into the lives of marginal souls living in two distinct cultures. Anchored by...

Dong Tu was to marry a rich man to save her family but five days before the wedding, she met someone else: the handsome Obsidian - the most dangerous man in the Whisper World... Set in a fantasy world similar to ancient Asia, The Girl Who Kept Winter is a love story between Luu Dong Tu (lit...

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...

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....

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...

For centuries, Vietnamese have sustained the history of their nation, both actual and mythic, through their folklore. These stories, passed from generation to generation, contain not only the national saga, but also fundamental cultural values that Vietnamese hold dear. Some stories, like "A...