Vietnamese Fiction

Some of Vietnam’s best authors have been excellently translated. Perhaps the searing satire of middle class Vietnmese, ‘Dumb Luck’ by Vu Trong Vu, published in 1936 is one of the most famous while ‘The Sorrow of War’ by Bao Ninh is internationally acclaimed. In the early years of this century an American publishing house put out a series of the best novels of the last century and some are still available