| Description |
x, 239 pages : map ; 19 cm. |
| Series |
A traveler's literary companion |
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Traveler's literary companion.
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| Note |
Short stories translated from Vietnamese. |
| Contents |
Salt of the jungle / Nguyen Huy Thiep -- The shelter / Duong Thu Huong -- The Saigon tailor shop / Pham Thi Hoai -- The goat meat special / Ho Anh Thai -- A small tragedy / Le Minh Khue -- Crossing the river / Nguyen Huy Thiep -- The stranded fish / Doan Quoc Sy -- A river's mystery / Bao Ninh -- The color of sorrow / Nguyen Qui Duc -- Dark wood and shadows / Andrew Q. Lam -- Remembrance of the countryside / Nguyen Huy Thiep -- The colonel / Thich Duc Thien -- How long until the end of bitterness? / Vu Bao -- Dresses, dresses / Linh Bao -- Fired gold / Nguyen Huy Thiep -- Scent of the tiger / Quy The -- The white horse / Nguyen Ba Trac. |
| Summary |
Seventeen stories about Vietnam, the land and its people. They range from Nguyen Huy Thiep's Salt of the Jungle, on a monkey hunt, to Qui The's Scent of the Tiger, on a woman who tames tigers. |
| Subject |
Short stories, Vietnamese.
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Vietnam -- Fiction.
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Short stories, Vietnamese. (OCoLC)fst01117429
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Vietnam. (OCoLC)fst01204778
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Added Author |
Balaban, John, 1943-
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Nguyễn, Quí Đức.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Vietnam. San Francisco : Whereabouts Press, ©1996 (OCoLC)605062414 |
| ISBN |
1883513022 (alk. paper) |
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9781883513023 (alk. paper) |
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