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May 2019
Book Club: The Moon Bamboo and other stories
FVH Bookclubmembers For May 2019 we will be reading: The Moon Bamboo and other stories (volume I) This is a collection of 38 Vietnamese tales and legends chosen and edited by the publisher. It is a means to enter the magic world of tradition, rural life, popular beliefs and myths of Vietnam. Each short story is given the name of an ethnic group of origin. "On the distant moon, there lived a strong and handsome lad by the name of Con…
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FVH bookclub – ‘Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life’ by Thích Nhất Hạnh
FVH Bookclub members For June 2019 we will be reading Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thích Nhất Hạnh Lucidly and beautifully written, PEACE IS EVERY STEP contains commentaries and meditations, personal anecdotes and stories from Nhất Hạnh's experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. It begins where the reader already is - in the kitchen, office, driving a car, walking in a park - and shows how deep meditative presence is…
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Bookclub – The Sorrow War by Bảo Ninh
For September 2019 we will be reading: The Sorrow of War by Bảo Ninh “The first critical portrayal of life in the North Vietnamese army ever to appear in Vietnam . . .”—Time “Vaults over all the American fiction that came out of the Vietnam War to take its place alongside the greatest war novel of the century, All Quiet on the Western Front. And this is to understate its qualities, for, unlike All Quiet, it is a novel about much more…
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Bookclub – the poet Xuân Diệu
For October 2019 we will be reading: Love Poems by Xuân Diệu, a collection of translated poems on the theme of love composed by one of the most prolific and well-known poets of Vietnam. Throughout his career, Xuân Diệu, one of the most outstanding representative of Thơ Mới Literary movement, had been variously known as a “romantic poet”, or “the greatest poet among the new poets”, or “the king of love poems”. "With his language, Xuân Diệu has built a…
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Book Club – Floating lives by Nguyễn Ngọc Tư
Floating Lives by Nguyễn Ngọc Tư The first collection of short stories in English by the award-winning Vietnamese writer Nguyễn Ngọc Tư (b. 1976). The stories in this collection are Chekhovian tales of Mekong Delta natives living economically poor but emotionally rich lives. Love, romance, regret, and the mystery of life permeate all the stories. The Swedish critic Stefan Jonsson writes, "These are stories of the highest class, just as perfect and strict in form as a story by Chekhov, and…
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