Past continuous, a novel

Nguyen Khai, Translation and adapted by Phan Thanh Hao and Wayne Karlin

ISBN 10: 1880684780 / ISBN 13: 9781880684788

Editore: Curbstone Press, Willimantic, CT, 2001

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159p., stated first edition, two page publisher's publication announcement laid in, very good condition. Novel about the Vietnam war from a North Vietnamese perspective. Codice articolo 331209

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Titolo: Past continuous, a novel

Casa editrice: Curbstone Press, Willimantic, CT

Data di pubblicazione: 2001

Legatura: Paperback

Edizione: prima edizione

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Nguyen Khai's documentary novel, Past Continuous, published in the early 1980s before the "doi moi" policy was introduced, gives a fascinating inside view of North Vietnamese views and strategies during the American War in Vietnam. As the three narrators exchange reminiscences, we not only learn about the inner-workings of the liberation movement, but we also see the tensions that developed afterward in their post-war society. The novel dramatizes the histories, adventures, and emotions of three extraordinary people - a secret agent, a female battalion commander, and a Catholic priest who supported the revolution. In Nguyen Khai, we have a Vietnamese Graham Greene exploring the revolution through the minds of three very different consciousnesses.

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Nguyen Khai was born in 1930 in Hanoi and now lives in Ho Chi Minh City. One of Vietnam's best writers, he is the author of fifteen novels and short story collections, and veteran of both the French and American wars.

Nguyen Khai was born in 1930 in Hanoi. One of Vietnam's best-known writers, he is the author of dozens of novels and short story collections, and a veteran of both the French and American wars. He died of heart failure in Ho Chi Minh City in 2008. 

?Wayne Karlin is an author, editor, and teacher. As the American consulting editor for Curbstone's Voices from Vietnam series, he edited and adapted translations of writers from Vietnam. A former professor of language and literature at the College of Southern Maryland, he retired in 2017 after 31 years of service. 

Phan Thanh Hao is a poet and translator.