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Nguyen Van Sam. Khoi song tren song. Tran Nho Bui, ill. San Jose, California. Van. 2000. xviii + 263 pages, ill. $14. THE AUTHOR OF THIS collection of fourteen short [...]

Nguyen Huy Thiep. Conte d'amour un soir de pluie. Kim Lefevre, tr. La Tour d'Aigues, France. L'Aube. 1999. 178 pages, 110 F. ISBN 2-87678-489-0. NGUYEN HUY THIEP, the well-known writer, [...]

'Phantoms and Men' by the forty-something author Nguyen Khac Truong, who lives and works in the capital city of Hanoi, is a novel about his native village of 'Temple Well,' [...]

Nguyen Quang Than. Anh Bayard, tr. Aries, Fr. Picquier. 1997. 255 pages. 139 F. ISBN 2-87730-310-1. Nguyen Quang Than had already made a name for himself through his writings, including [...]

Quand on est jeune is the translation of a delightful collection of fifteen Vietnamese stories written by Phan Thi Vang-Anh, whose father was the famous poet Che Lan-Vien (real name: [...]

Slander is the fifth novel by Linda Le, a refugee from Vietnam who is in her thirties, lives in France, and has published four novels in the 'Asian francophone' category, [...]

Following A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Poetry, edited and translated by Nguyen Ngoc Bich (Knopf, 1975), Yale University Press brought out in 1979 The Heritage of Vietnamese Poetry, a collection [...]

The two prose collections The Other Side of Heaven and Vietnam represent laudable efforts to lead us away from the 'old' Vietnam conflict and help us focus on the postwar [...]

Two Shores / Deux Rives is a bilingual collection of poems by the Vietnamese Canadian teacher Thuong Vuong-Riddick. Some of her compositions have appeared in Canadian magazines, and others have [...]

Vietnam O chon khong quen (At Unfamiliar Places) is the fifth published work by the highly productive Vietnamese refugee writer Nguyen Y-Thuan. As the title indicates, this unassuming, gentle, hardworking [...]

Dans la tourmente is the continuing story of several young North Vietnamese already encountered in Nostalgies provinciales, the first installment in the author's multivolume series 'The Children of Thai Binh.' [...]

Duyen Anh (real name: Vu Mong Long) is a prolific Paris-based expatriate writer who has had two of his post-1975 works translated into French, Un russe a Saigon (see WLT [...]

The collection of 'expatriate essays' bearing the title 'Between Two Horizons' is authored by a Vietnamese refugee septuagenarian who has published a memoir and a collection of poems (soon after [...]

Sai gon Nang Nho Mua Thuong is the sequel to Phuong van no ben troi Ha-noi (Flame Trees Still Blaze in the Hanoi Sky), a memoir written by a Vietnamese [...]

God's Will is a moving love story by a Vietnamese refugee (real name Tuyet-Mai Nguyen) who decided to write her novel in English, which she had learned as a second [...]

Phan Lac Tiep, a Vietnamese refugee writer-journalist whose short stories were reviewed in the Spring 1993 issue of this journal (see WLT 67:2, p. 456), has now given us two [...]

Phan Lac Tiep, a Vietnamese refugee writer-journalist whose short stories were reviewed in the Spring 1993 issue of this journal (see WLT 67:2, p. 456), has now given us two [...]

The Flowers of Hell is the bilingual edition of a collection of poignant poems by the Vietnamese dissident Nguyen Chi Thien (see WLT 59:3, p. 490), who was finally allowed [...]

Dieu Tan is the pen name (considered by many to be a woman's name) of Nguyen Tinh-Ve, a male refugee writer who, prior to 1975, had produced a couple of [...]

The author of the novel Tram nghi chan (Rest Area) previously won acclaim for her verse collections Cua mua gui nang (From the Rains for the Sunshine; 1984) and Truong [...]

The venerable Thich Nhat Hanh is well known for his antiwar activities during the Vietnam conflict as a Columbia University graduate student and lecturer and, in the past twenty years [...]