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November 2020
Bookclub – Diary of a Cricket by Tô Hoài
In 1941, ‘Diary of a Cricket’ was published for the first time and immediately aroused a strong interest in young readers. Tô Hoài’s cricket, who began hopping on the grass along Hanoi’s To Lich River, eventually crossed national borders to touch the hearts of children in over 40 countries around the world. The book is regarded as a classic children's novel through many decades. It describes the adventures of a cricket who leaves his nest and travels to different places.…
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Bookclub – DISTANT ROAD Select Poems of Nguyễn Duy
‘Widely considered the most important poet of his generation, Nguyễn Duy began his career as a writer on the battlefields of Vietnam. The power of his highly-crafted poetry stems from its distinct sense of time and place, his unrelenting honesty, and his deep compassion. Born into a peasant family, Duy captures the essence of village life in his poetry. Whether it is love, family, war, present or lost friends, or his own self-mockery, his poetry is infused with an understanding of…
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Bookclub – welcome to the start of 2021 bookclub
Hi readers, Welcome back to the FVH bookclub after a short break. For the first meeting of 2021, please come along and bring the books you hve read in the past months and share your experience with us. We will discuss the new format for the Bookclub for the next months which we think you will like and it will be a flexible and different way to enjoy our Boocklub. Let’s have a new start in April!!! For our first…
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Bookclub – Endless Field by Nguyễn Ngọc Tư & The Floating Lives by Nguyễn Phan Quang Bình – POSTPONED
MAY BOOKCLUB IS POSTPONED DUE TO COVID=19 RESTRICTIONS IN HANOI AND WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE FOR JUNE. MORE INFO WILL FOLLOW IN DUE COURSE. THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING “Endless Field is a tale of Mekong Delta natives, marking Nguyễn Ngọc Tư’s perceptive insight and sympathy for farmers (and people in general). Love, revenge, nostalgia, regret, and exposure of dark corners of souls permeate the whole story, the characters being thus more real. Endless Field, made into the 2010 film titled…
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FVH Boocklub – Dumb Luck by Vũ Trọng Phụng
"Our FVH bookclub is back and, over the next few months, we will focus on Vietnamese classics that have been translated into English. We open with Dumb Luck to welcome the new illustrated edition in Vietnamese and the announcement of a movie to be released soon. This is an iconic book in Vietnamese literature and one of our favourite to read and review. And a really fun one if you are new to Vietnam/Hanoi and Vietnamese literature. The book club…
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