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Blue Dragon, White Tiger
The year is 1967. Tran Van Minh, a Massachusetts professor recruited by the CIA, is sent home to Vietnam in the midst of war. While teaching at Hue University, Minh becomes more sympathetic to the Viet Cong—and increasingly skeptical of America’s military involvement. Over the span of a decade and across three continents, Minh joins a communist sleeper cell, works underground at a Vietnam People’s Army/North Vietnam command post, and flies to Paris as a delegate of the National Liberation Front. As the country of his childhood changes before his eyes, he must find a way to live beyond its shores—and the past it holds. Reprinted for the first time in over 40 years as part of Ink & Blood, Kaya Press’s collaborative imprint with the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, Blue Dragon, White Tiger is the first Vietnamese American novel written in English and published in the United States, reprinted here with an afterword by Sydney Van To.
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It was rare to find Vietnamese writers in the United States speaking about this war, or to hear any Vietnamese voices at all in mainstream America. [. . .] Literature plays an important role as a corrective to this ignorance. [. . .] Thinking back to Tran Van Dinh, I wonder if he was lonely as the only Vietnamese novelist in America of his time. —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer
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