Nguyen Huy Thiep, one of Vietnam's foremost and most controversial contemporary authors has developed a stunning literary reputation both at home and abroad. He captures the emotional quality of Vietnamese life in a way that no other author has done. Yet his stories are universal, plumbing the human psyche in both the realistic tales and the fables.

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