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Blogs in May 2020

The Lover 18th May 2020

Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras’s childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of...

Water Buffalo Days 18th May 2020

For a young boy growing up in the hills of Central Vietnam, the days were full of adventure and excitement. Nhuong’s companion was Tank, the family water buffalo. Tank was extraordinary. He was fierce and fought off tigers and...

Novel Without a Name 18th May 2020

Twenty-eight-year-old Quan has been fighting for the Communist cause in North Vietnam for a decade. Filled with idealism and hope when he first left his village, he now spends his days and nights dodging stray bullets and bombs, foraging...

The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon 18th May 2020

When a newborn baby girl is found abandoned with nothing but a scarlet ribbon tied to her basket, Ada Davidson, housekeeper of the wealthy McNally family’s home, the Uplands, takes her into her care. Sworn to secrecy about the...

Sword 17th May 2020

A shadowy killer stalks the streets of Bucharest, seeking out victims from among the Roma minority. The police are at a loss to track down the murderer, who always dispatches in the same manner – hence the Sword nickname...