Bøger af Ngo the Vinh

In this insightful, award-winning novel, Ngo The Vinh brings into sharp relief the wartime atmosphere and conflicts of Vietnam in the mid-1960s. Using the plight of the Thuong Central Highlanders as a springboard, Vinh has in many ways provided an unintentionally prophetic parable for the present U.S. struggles with an unfamiliar culture. Written in the turbulent surroundings of the Vietnam war, Vong Dai Xanh (The Green Belt) was originally published in 1970, released to wide acclaim and subsequently won Vietnam's National Literature Award.

Ngo The Vinh was an ARVN Airborne Ranger M.D. during the Vietnam War. This author, winner of the 1971 National Prize for Literature for his novel The Green Belt, ironically was also penalized for his writing, when he was summoned to the court of law because of the title story of this collection: "The Battle of Saigon". This short story records the spiritual journey of a soldier who accepts sacrifice and hardship in the struggle for freedom of South Vietnam, a soldier who at the same time longs for a better society in the future. For the contents of this work, Ngo The Vinh was accused of using the press to circulate arguments that were deemed detrimental to public order, that militated against the discipline and fighting spirit of the army, a collective of which he himself was a member.Like the title story, the other eleven works in this collection, half of them created before and the other half after 1975, present war and post-war traumatic experiences and dreams from the perspective of Vietnamese Diaspora."The Battle of Saigon