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Crossroads and Lampposts
Translated by Uyên T. Nguyễn
[Pre-Order] A major triumph of Vietnamese literary modernism set in new communist Hanoi; written in 1966 and remaining unpublished until 2011. Winner of the 2011 Hanoi Literature Association Prize. The origins of Crossroads and Lampposts can be traced back to a project sponsored by the Hanoi Police Department in the early 1960s. The handwritten manuscript was completed in 1966 and submitted to...
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