Vietnam
Subtitle: a traveler's literary companion
By: edited byJohn Balaban and Nguyen Qui Duc.
Contributors: Balaban, John, 1943-; Nguyen, Quí Đúc.
Series: A traveler's literary companion
Publisher: Whereabouts Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng; vie
Number of pages: 239
Description: Hanoi. The mysterious mountain jungles. The demimondes of the Hue court and the Saigon cafes. A rural commune. A raucous tailor shop. Just as they traverse wide landscapes, these seventeen stories by the best Vietnamese writers also harken through time to the roots of Vietnamese culture.
Notes: Short stories translated from Vietnamese.