The dragon hunt
Subtitle: five stories
By: Tran Vu ; translated from the Vietnamese by Nina McPherson and Phan Huy Duong.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Description: A boat full of refugees runs aground on a coral reef. A sister and brother engage in a bizarre passion play inside a stifling Paris apartment. A love triangle mimics the perverse course of history in an ancient town. A writer receives a surreal welcome in an imaginary country that both is and isn't Vietnam. A group of exiles meets at a European country estate to slaughter dragons and devour each other in a ritualistic invocation of the Vietnam wars.

This is the world of Tran Vu, a world of twisted eroticism and baroque pageantry, where characters possess an infinite capacity for tenderness and cruelty. Vu is able to convey the trauma of the refugee experience in a way that no writer of his generation has before.
Table of contents: title: The coral reef; title: Gunboat on the Yangtze; title: The back street of Hoi An; title: Nha Nam; title: The dragon hunt.