The Secret Of Hoa Sen

Author : Nguyen Phan Que Mai
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160533
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret of Hoa Sen written by Nguyen Phan Que Mai and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems by Nguyen Phan Que Mai Translated from the Vietnamese by Bruce Weigl and Nguyen Phan Que Mai Nguyen Phan Que Mai is among the most exciting writers to emerge from post-war Vietnam. Bruce Weigl, driven by his personal experiences as a soldier during the war in Vietnam, has spent the past 20 years translating contemporary Vietnamese poetry. These penetrating poems, published in bilingual English and Vietnamese, build new bridges between two cultures bound together by war and destruction. The Secret of Hoa Sen, Que Mai's first full-length U.S. publication, shines with craft, art, and deeply felt humanity. I cross the Lam River to return to my homeland where my mother embraces my grandmother's tomb in the rain, the soil of Nghe An so dry the rice plants cling to rocks. My mother chews dry corn; hungry, she tries to forget.

Author : Que Mai Phan Nguyen
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1643751352
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mountains Sing written by Que Mai Phan Nguyen and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Bestseller A New York Times Editors’ Choice SelectionA Winner of the 2020 Lannan Literary Awards Fellowship "[An] absorbing, stirring novel . . . that, in more than one sense, remedies history." —The New York Times Book Review “A triumph, a novelistic rendition of one of the most difficult times in Vietnamese history . . . Vast in scope and intimate in its telling . . . Moving and riveting.” —VIET THANH NGUYEN, author of The Sympathizer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Nội, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hồ Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that tore apart not just her beloved country, but also her family. Vivid, gripping, and steeped in the language and traditions of Việt Nam, The Mountains Sing brings to life the human costs of this conflict from the point of view of the Vietnamese people themselves, while showing us the true power of kindness and hope. The Mountains Sing is celebrated Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s first novel in English.

Author : Un Sio San
Publisher : 香港中文大學出版社
ISBN 13 : 962996628X
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naked Picnic written by Un Sio San and published by 香港中文大學出版社. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2013, The World of Words is a collection of selected works by some of the most internationally acclaimed poets today. The poem of "Naked Picnic" by Un Sio San (Macau) is finest contemporary poetry in trilingual or bilingual presentation.

Author : Bruce Weigl
Publisher : American Poets Continuum
ISBN 13 : 9781942683896
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Shores of Welcome Home written by Bruce Weigl and published by American Poets Continuum. This book was released on 2019 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's premier living military veteran poet reveals the long scars left by Vietnam and the ghosts encountered at life's end.

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231551630
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Other Moons written by and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this anthology, Vietnamese writers describe their experience of what they call the American War and its lasting legacy through the lens of their own vital artistic visions. A North Vietnamese soldier forms a bond with an abandoned puppy. Cousins find their lives upended by the revelation that their fathers fought on opposite sides of the war. Two lonely veterans in Hanoi meet years after the war has ended through a newspaper dating service. A psychic assists the search for the body of a long-vanished soldier. The father of a girl suffering from dioxin poisoning struggles with corrupt local officials. The twenty short stories collected in Other Moons range from the intensely personal to narratives that deal with larger questions of remembrance, trauma, and healing. By a diverse set of authors, including many veterans, they span styles from social realism to tales of the fantastic. Yet whether describing the effects of Agent Orange exposure or telling ghost stories, all speak to the unresolved legacy of a conflict that still haunts Vietnam. Among the most widely anthologized and popular pieces of short fiction about the war in Vietnam, these works appear here for the first time in English. Other Moons offers Anglophone audiences an unparalleled opportunity to experience how the Vietnamese think and write about the conflict that consumed their country from 1954 to 1975—a perspective still largely missing from American narratives.

Author : Tran Le Khanh
Publisher : White Pine Press (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9781945680434
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beginning of Water written by Tran Le Khanh and published by White Pine Press (NY). This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Khan is a deeply devoted Buddhist who has found a way to offer true expression of the Dharma in short, powerful poems.

Author : Tran Quang Quy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975465349
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Human Field written by Tran Quang Quy and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: poetry

Author : Suzanne Conboy-Hill
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326639625
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let Me Tell You a Story written by Suzanne Conboy-Hill and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground-breaking literary project, award-winning authors from Europe, Asia and Africa read for you their own stories and poems; some set in contemporary realism, others in science fiction, fantasy, or disturbing inner worlds. They explore themes of relationships, disability, loss and vengeance with insight & often a good twitch of humour. Scan the qr codes to listen while you read, to hear the rhythms, the tumble of words in a hurry, the spaces where silence does its best work. The Foreword is by Ian McMillan - poet, broadcaster, and presenter of BBC Radio Three's The Verb who has his own unique, pint-of-beer-in-a-dimpled-glass Yorkshire voice.

Author : Samuel K. Beamon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781414083018
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Death written by Samuel K. Beamon and published by . This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Family History is about my mother's family and an outline back to our European roots. Growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, I thought that my families were just good Christian folk. They worked hard and sometimes played hard. As I began to grow older, I began to research some of the family lines and discovered, as I am sure most other people would, that I had some famous ancestors. I began a search that lasted many years. This is a gathering of stories of our families and the Genealogy of 780 years of Hortons, 381 years of DeHavens, 171 years of Fitzgeralds, 291 years of Surratts, and 456 years of Caves. It is in no way complete. It is only as accurate as the information gathered from old diaries, family bibles and oral histories.

Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Memorable Classics Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Doll's House written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Memorable Classics Books. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is set in a Norwegian town circa 1879. The play concerns the fate of a married woman, who at the time in Norway lacked reasonable opportunities for self-fulfillment in a male-dominated world, despite the fact that Ibsen denied it was his intent to write a feminist play. It was a great sensation at the time, and caused a "storm of outraged controversy" that went beyond the theatre to the world of newspapers and society. Synopsis: The play opens at Christmas time as Nora Helmer enters her home carrying many packages. Nora's husband Torvald is working in his study when she arrives. He playfully rebukes her for spending so much money on Christmas gifts, calling her his "little squirrel." He teases her about how the previous year she had spent weeks making gifts and ornaments by hand because money was scarce. This year Torvald is due a promotion at the bank where he works, so Nora feels that they can let themselves go a little. The maid announces two visitors: Mrs. Kristine Linde, an old friend of Nora's, who has come seeking employment; and Dr. Rank, a close friend of the family, who is let into the study. Kristine has had a difficult few years, ever since her husband died leaving her with no money or children. Nora says that things have not been easy for them either: Torvald became sick, and they had to travel to Italy so he could recover. Kristine explains that when her mother was ill she had to take care of her brothers, but now that they are grown she feels her life is "unspeakably empty." Nora promises to talk to Torvald about finding her a job. Kristine gently tells Nora that she is like a child. Nora is offended, so she tells her that she got money from "some admirer" so they could travel to Italy to improve Torvald's health. She told Torvald that her father gave her the money, but in fact she illegally borrowed it without his knowledge (women were forbidden from conducting financial activities such as signing checks without a man's endorsement). Since then, she has been secretly working and saving up to pay off the loan. Krogstad, a lower-level employee at Torvald's bank, arrives and goes into the study. Nora is clearly uneasy when she sees him. Dr. Rank leaves the study and mentions that he feels wretched, though like everyone he wants to go on living. In contrast to his physical illness, he says that the man in the study, Krogstad, is "morally diseased."