Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:54:36 +0000
Subject: Re: Novels about Indochina


I just returned from Viet Nam and read a wonderful anthology while there,
available in the U.S. and U.K.

Lockhart, Greg and Monique Lockhart, trans., ed. The Light of the Capital:
Three Modern Vietnamese Classics.
Kuala Lumpur and Oxford: Oxford in Asia Paperbacks. OUP, 1996.

The introductory essay by G. Lockhart is excellent, and all three novels
(by Tam Lang, Vu Trong Phung, and Nguyen Hong) are fine examples of
social-realist reportage about the Hanoi area in the 1920s and 1930s, when
the city entered a period of urban growth the authors claim is paralleled
by the post-reform period today.

Best,



Shekhar

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Shekhar Krishnan
LGCB4, Dinwiddy House
189-205, Pentonville Road
London N1 9NF
U.K.

School of Oriental & African Studies
Centre for South Asian Area Studies
University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H OXG
U.K.




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