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The Tale of Kieu, Bilingual Edition
by Huynh Thong
- LITERATURE
- 1987
- PAPER
- 211 PAGES
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A masterpiece of Vietnamese literature, written in the early 19th-century by a Vietnamese ambassador to the Chinese court. This edition, translated and annotated by Huynh Sanh Thong, renders the narrative poem in modern blank verse. The much-celebrated poem, based on a Chinese novel, shows East Asian classical and Vietnamese folk influences.
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