Behind the Red Mist: Short Fiction by Ho Anh Thai: 2 (Voices from Vietnam) - Softcover

Ho Anh Thai (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880684543 ISBN 13: 9781880684542

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Behind the Red Mist gives us for the first time in English a wide range of stories from the most important writer of the post-war generation in Vietnam. The characters range from a party official who turns into a goat while watching porno movies, to an Indian who carries his mother's bones in his knapsack, to a war widow trying desperately to piece together her life through the fragments of debris she collects from her back yard. The title novella ""Behind the Red Mist"" is a Vietnamese ""Back To the Future"", a social satire in which a young man in the Hanoi of the eighties receives an electric shock and is transported back to his same apartment block in 1967 wartime Vietnam during the American bombing. He not only witnesses the war with the eyes of someone who knows its outcome, but participates in his parents' courtship and discovers some truths about the generation held up to his own as a role model.

About this title

About the Author

One of the Vietnam's most prolific writers and winner of several of its most prestigious literary awards, Ho Anh Thai was published in the leading literary magazines while still in high school. The author of eleven books, he is also a diplomat who served in India and the Middle East. Currently he is an editor for World Affairs Weekly.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1880684543
• ISBN 13: 9781880684542
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 277