Books from Vietnam
48 popular vietnamese books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Asia Challenge" were written by authors from Vietnam.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Fire Road : The Napalm Girl's Journey Through the Horrors of War to Faith, Forgiveness, and Peace by Kim Phuc Phan Thi, Kim Phúc EN
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Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames--before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It's a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror and violence of the Vietnam War. Kim was left for dead in a morgue; no one expected her to survive the attack. Napalm meant fire, and fire meant death. Against all odds, Kim lived--but her journey toward he... continue
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Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai EN
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No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama. For all the ten years of her life, HÀ has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by . . . and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. HÀ and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, HÀ discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape . . . and the... continue
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La mensajera de cristal by Thị Hoài Phạm ES
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Nacida en 1960, Pham Thi Hoài centra su narrativa en el Vietnam de hoy y, como otros escritores de su generación, no trata ya el tema de la guerra. Es sorprendente su capacidad para comprender el dolor que se esconde tras unas vidas míseras y triviales, y sus reivindicaciones como mujer y como vietnamita hicieron que sus obras resultaran en su país una escándalo inadmisible y tuvieran serios problemas con la censura. Sin embargo, lo más notable en esta autora es su estilo personalísimo, inconfundible, hecho a la vez de ferocidad y ternura, de po... continue
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Los Paraísos ciegos by Thu Huong Duong ES
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"No mires nunca atrás, ni siquiera el tiempo de un relámpago. Ninguna felicidad podría resistirlo. Cualquier porvenir se deshilacharía". En tiempos de guerra es tal vez inevitable convertir en demonio al enemigo, y la sabiduría de esta novela consiste precisamente en despojarle de esa máscara demoníaca restableciendo su rostro humano. La historia de Huong describe los problemas de gente común y las contradicciones de la reforma política, pero su personalidad, sus alegrías y sufrimientos, sus terribles retos y el ca... continue
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My First Day by Phung Nguyen Quang, Huynh Kim Lien EN
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A visually stunning story of resilience and determination by an award-winning new author-illustrator team. This is no ordinary first journey. The raining season has come to the Mekong Delta, and An, a young Vietnamese boy, sets out alone in a wooden boat wearing a little backpack and armed only with a single oar. On the way, he is confronted by giant crested waves, heavy rainfall and an eerie forests where fear takes hold of him. Although daunted by the dark unknown, An realizes that he is not alone and continues to paddle. He knows it will all be worth it when he reaches his destination.
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong EN
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Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize 'Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move- he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.' New Yorker An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects - love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire - and attends to them all with lines that feel newly-minted, graceful in their cadences, passionate and hungry in their tender, close attention- '..... continue
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Novela sin título by Thu Huong Duong, Ana María Moix, Mónica Boada ES
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La guerra del Vietnam ha dado lugar a numerosos testimonios: novelas, biografías, ensayos, películas. Pero eran pocas las oportunidades de acceder a la versión de alguien del otro bando que se alejara de los tópicos y presentara un punto de vista como éste.
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O amante by Marguerite Duras PT
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Prêmio Goncourt em 1984, com mais de 2 milhões e meio de exemplares vendidos apenas na França, Romance autobiográfico que acompanha a tumultuada história de amor entre uma jovem francesa e um rico comerciante chinês na Indochina pré-guerra. Com uma prosa intimista e certeira, Duras evoca a vida nas margens de Saigon nos últimos dias do império colonial da França e relembra não só sua experiência, mas também os relacionamentos que separaram sua família e que, prematuramente, gravaram em seu rosto as marcas implacáveis da maturidade.