Chinatown / by Thụân ; translated by Nguỹên An Lý
"An abandoned package is discovered in the Paris Metro: the subway workers suspect it's a terrorist bomb. A Vietnamese woman sitting nearby, her son asleep on her shoulder, waits and begins to reflect on her life, from her constrained childhood in communist Hanoi, to a long period of study...
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| Other title: | Chinatown. English. |
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| Language: | English Vietnamese |
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[2022]
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