Duong Thu Huong: No Man’s Land
Spike contributor Brendan Wolfe has a review of Duong Thu Huong’s new novel No Man’s Land over at January Magazine. Huong is an acclaimed Vietnamese novelist who, as Brendan points out, has provoked the wrath of the Vietnamese authorities on several occasions with her writing.
Personally, I’ve only read Huong’s third book, “Novel Without A Name”, a beautiful and terrifying meditation on the Vietnam War. Her books tend to get lost because they get filed under “foriegn”, the kiss-of-death literary equivalent to saying a film’s got subtitles. But Huong’s writing, even in translation, is sparse and shot through with different perspectives that twists language into new forms.
Go read Brendan’s review. And check out the travel piece he wrote for Spike about climbing a big hill in South Korea.
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Other Splinters posts of interest:
- Duong Thu Huong
- Brendan Wolfe: The Beiderbecke Affair
- Kelman in the land of the free
- The missing people-shredder
- He was blind and now he can see
