Hanoi Blues
”Dear Madame, I've read your manuscript in one leap. My homesickness that keeps sapping me made it even more attractive. /…/ Through your text the reader could better know Vietnam, its people, its soul at the present time. /…/ In my opinion, since the end of the colonial time, no European writer has tried to reflect our country's interior life. Vietnam in its painful mutation, its doi moi full of contradictions, extolled by the single ruling party, still remains foreign – and strange – to the Western world. In this respect, your novel – a literary as well as a political event – will stand out. /…/ You have known how to apprehend the life, the Vietnamese manners and customs often hard to grasp for a Westerner./…/My best wishes for the success of your work.
Yours, Tin”
(translated from the French original)
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The author's latest novel about Vietnam is waiting for its publisher in Vietnamese! This text takes us beyond the usual lies and postcards about current Vietnam. The English translation is now available!
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The source of inspiration: "Two years of living in Vietnam inspired
me to write Hanoi Blues , a novel where love, friendship and politics
are entangled. But it also represents my view of a people, which has deeply
moved me by its history and by the misery where it currently finds itself.
As if they had replaced one curse by another one!"
Jeanne Cordelier
Professor of history in Vietnam, December 2001:
"Readers will know the aspirations,
the feelings, the real life of the people. Thanks, thank you for the writer
who helps us to break through the wall of silence, to reveal the truth
like it is."
(translated from the French original)
The end of the letter : "I am happy that our common friend has already read the manuscript. Thank you for your contribution to the common cause of the people of Vietnam. Cordially yours..."
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Be careful, oil, 1998, Lê Quang Hà.
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