Paradise of the Blind

This unconstrained and exciting novel, originally published in Huong's home country Vietnam, was carefully translated by Duong and McPherson, providing rich and detailed stories without complaint. Writers living with children in Hanoi depict the complexity of Vietnamese culture - loyalty to families and ancestors, symbolic values ​​of food, differences in classes, and despair mixed with despair. The hero who played the role of a young woman physically weak in the 1980s remembered Hanoi in the past 10 years. Although there are subtle hints on the time of war and peace, Huong's focus is on the relationship between modern hang and her traditional mother, businessman selling food, selfish hypocritical uncle in hang, community farmer ; He is a relatively wealthy and unconditional love for his aunt. The contrast between young people, the elderly, urban and rural areas helps to convey various Vietnamese lifestyles. Introduction of McPherson provides necessary background information without compromising Huong's powerful story without doubt. (February)

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.