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Ticket to Childhood

Product Description: In the tradition of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Clumbed Out the Window and Disappeared, the most popular book in Vietnamese historyâa charming novel about what we lose when we grow up. The bestselling book in the history of modern Vietnam, Ticket to Childhood has been nothing short of a sensation in its home country: it has sold over 350,000 copies and has gone through 35 printings...read more

By Nguyen Nhat Anh

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9781468311716 | Italian edition edition (Overlook Pr, November 24, 2015), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In the tradition of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Clumbed Out the Window and Disappeared, the most popular book in Vietnamese historyâa charming novel about what we lose when we grow up.

A Ticket to Childhood: A Novel

Product Description: The best selling book in the history of modern Vietnam, Ticket to Childhood has been nothing short of a sensation in its home country: it has sold over 350,000 copies and has gone through thirty-five printings. This, the novelâs first appearance outside Vietnam, marks the arrival, in English, of a hugely appealing and engaging author...read more

By Nguyen Nhat Anh and Will Naythons (trans)

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9781468309591, titled "Ticket to Childhood: A Novel" | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, November 26, 2014), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The best selling book in the history of modern Vietnam, Ticket to Childhood has been nothing short of a sensation in its home country: it has sold over 350,000 copies and has gone through thirty-five printings.

Fire in the Rain: A Short Story Collection

Product Description: FIRE IN THE RAIN, a collection of eleven short stories, interweaves fascinating Vietnamese folk tales with historical events of Vietnam. In 2013, a chance encounter in Little Saigon between Lt. Toan, a former officer of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and fellow Vietnam veteran Cpl...read more

By Tuan Cao-dac

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9781555717469 | Hellgate Pr, April 15, 2014, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: FIRE IN THE RAIN, a collection of eleven short stories, interweaves fascinating Vietnamese folk tales with historical events of Vietnam.

Insignificant Family

By Rosemary Nguyen (trans)

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9781931896481, titled "An Insignificant Family" | Curbstone Pr, June 30, 2009, cover price $19.95

The Other Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers

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9781439508022 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $26.95 | also contains The Other Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers

The Other Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers

Presents a collection of short stories by American and Vietnamese writers about the Vietnam War.

By Wayne Karlin (editor), Le Minh Khue, Minh Khue Le (editor) and Vu Truong (editor)

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9781880684313 | Curbstone Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of short stories by American and Vietnamese writers about the Vietnam War.

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9781439508022 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $26.95 | also contains The Other Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers

No Man's Land

In post-war Vietnam, a young, happily married woman finds her life turned upside down when her supposedly long dead first husband arrives in her village and, with the support of Party authorities, attempts to claim her as his own. By the author of Memories of a Pure Spring. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

By Phan Huy Duong (trans), Duong Thu Huong and Nina McPherson (trans)

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9780786888573 | Reprint edition (Hachette Book Group USA, June 13, 2006), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: In post-war Vietnam, a young, happily married woman finds her life turned upside down when her supposedly long dead first husband arrives in her village and, with the support of Party authorities, attempts to claim her as his own.

Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam

Presents impressions of life in post-war Vietnam as seen by twelve contemporary writers, including stories by Bao Ninh, Le Minh Khue, Mai Kim Ngoc, and Tran Vu

By Linh Dinh (editor)

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9781888363029 | Seven Stories Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Presents impressions of life in post-war Vietnam as seen by twelve contemporary writers, including stories by Bao Ninh, Le Minh Khue, Mai Kim Ngoc, and Tran Vu

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9781583227060 | Seven Stories Pr, April 3, 2006, cover price $14.95

9781888363074 | Seven Stories Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Presents impressions of life in post-war Vietnam as seen by twelve contemporary writers, including stories by Bao Ninh, Le Minh Khue, Mai Kim Ngoc, and Tran Vu

No Man's Land

By Thu Huong Duong, Nina McPherson (trans) and Huy Duong Phan (trans)

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9781401366643 | Hachette Books, April 13, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In post-war Vietnam, a young, happily married woman finds her life turned upside down when her supposedly long dead first husband arrives in her village and, with the support of Party authorities, attempts to claim her as his own.

Dumb Luck

Product Description: Banned in Vietnam until 1986, Dumb Luck--by the controversial and influential Vietnamese writer Vu Trong Phung--is a bitter satire of the rage for modernization in Vietnam during the late colonial era. First published in Hanoi during 1936, it follows the absurd and unexpected rise within colonial society of a street-smart vagabond named Red-haired Xuan...read more

By Nguyen Nguyet Cam (editor) and Peter Zinoman (editor)

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9780472098040 | Univ of Michigan Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: Banned in Vietnam until 1986, Dumb Luck--by the controversial and influential Vietnamese writer Vu Trong Phung--is a bitter satire of the rage for modernization in Vietnam during the late colonial era.

Dumb Luck: A Novel

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By Nguyen Nguyet Cam (editor), Nguyet Cam Nguyen, Trong Phung Vu and Peter Zinoman (editor)

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9780472068043 | Univ of Michigan Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $21.95

An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems: From the Eleventh Through the Twentieth Centuries

This anthology brings together 1000 years of Vietnamese poems. Comprising more than 300 poems by 150 poets, the collection is organized around nine main themes that include Vietnamese views of society, responses to foreign influences, and the role of art in life. (view table of contents)

By Huynh Sanh Thong (editor)

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9780300064100 | Yale Univ Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This anthology brings together 1000 years of Vietnamese poems.

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9780300091007 | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $42.00

Call Me by My True Names

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By Thich Nhat Hanh

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9781888375169 | Parallax Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $24.95

The Dragon Hunt: Five Stories

The beauty of Vietnam in contrast to the brutality that reigned there during its years of war is presented in a collection of five powerful short stories by a Vietnamese man who was able to flee to freedom as the war neared its end. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Phan Huy Duong (trans), Nina McPherson (trans) and Vu Tran

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9780786864188 | Hyperion Books, March 1, 1999, cover price $20.50 | About this edition: Five stories present the beauty of Vietnam in contrast to the brutality that reigned there during its years of war

From Both Sides Now: The Poetry of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath

A collection of poetry chronicling to the painful Vietnam conflict mirrors the progression of the war, with works from a variety of participants, including orphans, soldiers, widows, priests, protesters, and Vietnamese-Americans. Simultaneous.

By Phillip Mahony (editor)

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9780684849461 | Scribner, November 1, 1998, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A collection of poetry chronicling the painful Vietnam conflict mirrors the progression of the war, with works from a variety of participants, including orphans, soldiers, widows, priests, protestors, and Vietnamese Americans

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9780684849478 | Scribner, November 2, 1998, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A collection of poetry chronicling to the painful Vietnam conflict mirrors the progression of the war, with works from a variety of participants, including orphans, soldiers, widows, priests, protesters, and Vietnamese-Americans.

Mountain River: Vietnamese Poetry from the Wars, 1948-1993

Includes poems by Vietnamese soldiers and officials written during the period of wars against the French and Americans. (view table of contents)

By Kevin Bowen (editor), Nguyen Ba Chung (editor), Ba Chung Nguyen (editor), Chung Ba Nguyen (editor) and Bruce Weigl (editor)

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9781558491403 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Includes poems by Vietnamese soldiers and officials written during the period of wars against the French and Americans.

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9781558491410 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Includes poems by Vietnamese soldiers and officials written during the period of wars against the French and Americans.

Behind the Red Mist: Fiction by Ho Anh Thai

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By Nguyen Qui Duc (trans), Anh Thai Ho, Wayne Karlin (editor) and Qui C. Nguyen

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9781880684542 | Curbstone Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $19.95

The Women Carry River Water: Poems

By Martha Collins, Ba Chung Nguyen and Quang Thieu Nguyen

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9781558490864 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $27.50

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9781558490871 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $19.95

The Stars, the Earth, the River: Short Fiction

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By Wayne Karlin (editor), Minh Khue Le, Dana Sachs (trans) and Bac Hoai Tran (trans)

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9781880684474 | 1 edition (Curbstone Pr, April 1, 1997), cover price $16.95

A Time Far Past

Product Description: This epic novel presents a sweeping portrait of war and peace in northern Vietnam from the defeat of the French to the mid-1980s. The story follows the odyssey of Giang Minh Sai, the son of a Confucian scholar in the rural Red River delta, from his early childhood through his decorated service during the American War and his later efforts to adapt to the postwar world of urban Ha Noi...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Kevin Bowen (trans), Nguyen Ba Chung (trans), Ngo Vinh Hai (trans), David Hunt (trans) and Lu Le

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9781558490857 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This epic novel presents a sweeping portrait of war and peace in northern Vietnam from the defeat of the French to the mid-1980s.

The Light of the Capital: Three Modern Vietnamese Classics

Product Description: Set in the colonial era of Vietnam amid rapid urban transformation, this book offers in translation three seminal works that represent the first fine flowering of Vietnamese non-fiction writing. "I Pulled a Rickshaw," Tam Lang's startling reportage written in 1932 after the onset of the Great Depression, is the first of its kind to depict people from the new underclasses that had formed in early modern Hanoi...read more

By Greg Lockhart (editor), Monique Lockhart (trans), Nguyen Hong (editor), Tam Lang (editor) and Trong Phung Vu (editor)

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9789676530936 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Set in the colonial era of Vietnam amid rapid urban transformation, this book offers in translation three seminal works that represent the first fine flowering of Vietnamese non-fiction writing.

Vietnam: A Traveler's Literary Companion

By John Balaban (editor) and Qui Du'C Nguyen (editor)

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9781883513023 | Whereabouts Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $14.95

The Stone Boy and Other Stories

By Vo-Dinh Mai, Thich Nhat Hanh and Mobi Warren

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9780938077862 | Parallax Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $18.00

9789990044508 | Scb Distributors, September 1, 1995, cover price $0.02

Poems from Captured Documents

Product Description: These poems were written in journals and notebooks by ordinary soldiers who fought against American forces in Vietnam. The format of this edition is bilingual to enable both Vietnamese and American readers to appreciate these documents.

By Thanh T. Nguyen and Bruce Weigl (trans)

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9780870239212 | Bilingual edition (Univ of Massachusetts Pr, July 1, 1994), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: These poems were written in journals and notebooks by ordinary soldiers who fought against American forces in Vietnam.

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9780870239229 | Bilingual edition (Univ of Massachusetts Pr, July 1, 1994), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: These poems were written in journals and notebooks by ordinary soldiers who fought against American forces in Vietnam.

Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh

The Vietnamese Buddhist monk collects his poetry, which deals with the ravages of war

By Thich Nhat Hanh

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9780938077619 | Parallax Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The Vietnamese Buddhist monk collects his poetry, which deals with the ravages of war

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