Paradise of the Blind: A Novel

Duong Thu Huong is one of the most popular writers in Vietnam. Born in 1947, she volunteered to lead the Communist Youth Brigade during the Vietnam War in front of her. During the Chinese attack against Vietnam in 1979, she also became the first female fighter to record disputes at the forefront. As a claim to human rights and democratic political reform, Duong Thu Huong was expelled from the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1989 and was imprisoned without trial for his political belief in 1991. "Blind paradise" is her fourth novel and a fourth novel and is effectively banned by the Vietnamese government. She is also the author of an unnamed novel nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literature Award. Duong Thu Huong is not allowed to leave Vietnam. She lives in Hanoi and writes

Even Duon 's third novel, "Window of Heaven" itself, was an attack against the Communist government which took over Vietnam after the war with the United States in 1975. This novel does not have "paradise", it exists only in the optic nerve. It is blind in place of one of the characters. Headlines refer to Communist leaders who are openly talking about and producing what they call "Peasant's paradise" or "worker's paradise", but that is because they are the other Communist countries Like obviously is a failure. There is no paradise; only blind people can promote heaven based on flawed political theory, and this theory never succeeds.

The struggle with Tan's oppressor in a blind paradise reflects their determination to live with the patience and dignity of modern Vietnamese victims. Indeed, paradise is more like a survival novel than a war novel and has passed completely through Vietnam's intervention in the United States for many years. While some of the other works by author Duong Thu Huong show warfront from the front - she has personal experience - this novel depicts the domestic war and the domestic war in the north of the DMZ There. Duong Thu Huong has unveiled an indelible portrait depicting the sacrifice of three women and men from northern Vietnam and the communist society. The hero in heaven represents a real woman in Vietnam - the extreme one drawn by Passion Phuong of Graham Green's "quiet American" is not the "all metal" prostitute of Stanley Kubrick Extreme depiction Despite their normal occupation and status as second-class citizens, women in the heavens are extraordinary.

However, there is no political criticism of fierce revenge in "Blind people's paradise". Indeed, those who think she is only a tool for political opposition will make Duong disappointed. She wrote a fictitious novel - not only the corruption and sarcasm of the Communist Party and society but also the culture of Vietnam, the childhood of poor suburbs in Hanoi, disillusionment of the power of relatives that are among women Not only sacrifice, life. As a moving novel, "Paradise" transcended its environment.