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October 2022
Booklcub – 1st organizational meeting of the FVH Book Club 2022/23
Here we are again for FVH Book Club on Vietnamese Literature and Culture - heading into our 5th year. Welcome back after the summer break. The bookclub is meeting Monday eveing 3 October. The plan for this gathering is to discuss and agree the next list of books to read, the number and dates of next meetings. So please come with your reading proposals, your schedule and a list of interesting meeting venues for the next months. New bookclub members…
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Bookclub – “EATING VIETNAM by Graham Hollyday”
A journalist and blogger takes us on a colorful and spicy gastronomic tour through Viet Nam in this entertaining, offbeat travel memoir, with a foreword by Anthony Bourdain. Graham didn’t want to be a tourist in an alien land. He was determined to live it. An ordinary guy who liked trying interesting food, he moved to the capital city and embarked on a quest to find real Vietnamese food. In Eating Viet Nam, he chronicles his odyssey in this strange, enticing…
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Bookclub – THE BOOK OF SALT by Monique Truong
FVH Book Club- Season 5 Binh, a Vietnamese cook, flees Saigon in 1929, disgracing his family to serve as a galley hand at sea. The taunts of his now-deceased father ringing in his ears, Binh answers an ad for a live-in cook at a Parisian household, and soon finds himself employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Toklas and Stein hold court in their literary salon, for which the devoted yet acerbic Binh serves as chef, and as a…
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Lecture/presention by Ted Hammett – memories of Vietnam before, during and after the war
We are delighted to invite Ted Hammett as a long time supporter, member and great friend of FVH while he was working in Vietnam. Although he has moved back to the US he still keeps in close contact with FVH. Ted's association, friendship and love of Vietnam goes back to when he was a young marine in the American war. He is back for a short Hanoi visit and will spend an entertaining Sunday afternoon recounting the experiences of his…
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Bookclub – Endless Field by Nguyễn Ngọc Tư
“Endless Field is a tale of Mekong Delta natives, marking Nguyễn Ngọc Tư’s perceptive insight into and sympathy for the farmers (and people in general). Love, revenge, nostalgia, regret, and exposure of dark corners of souls permeate the story making the characters more real. Endless Field, made into the 2010 film titled The Floating Lives, has already been translated and published in Korea, China, France, Germany, and Sweden, where it has received much praise.” (from Goodreads) Endless Fields https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ng%E1%BB%8Dc_T%C6%B0 https://vietnamnews.vn/life-style/books/148888/young-writer-creates-a-literary-stir.html…
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