Making a Whore

Huyền grows up in upper-class Hà Nội, denied any knowledge of sex by her well-meaning family. When curiosity drives her to seek answers elsewhere, her sexual frustration spirals into a life of debauchery she never chose.

An exposé of the so-called progressive, 'Westernised' ideals of sexuality in 1930s colonial Vietnam — and a savage indictment of the social hypocrisy that destroys those it claims to protect. By Vietnam's most controversial writer and satirist, now in English for the first time.