num_pages: 211
description: Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. Thông’s new and absorbingly readable translation (on pages facing the Vietnamese text) is illuminated by notes that give comparative passages from the Chinese novel on which the poem was based, details on Chinese allusions, and literal translations with background information explaining Vietnamese proverbs and folk sayings. 
language: English
title: The Tale of Kiều
titlecomplete: The Tale of Kiều
genres: Asian Literature, Fiction, 19th Century, Epic, Classics, Historical, Asia, Historical Fiction, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 1355
publisher: Yale University Press