July 1 is Canada Day. The Chinese up there boycotted the holiday through the years of the Exclusion Act, but that was long in the past by the time the great global Vietnamese novelist arrived in 1980.
He wrote his first book on the shore in Malaysia where his wife and child died in shipwreck escaping Viet Nam. The Communists had sent them all to starve in a New Economic Zone.
He first published a book in English, in the United States. But he observed that in English he would have to write about Viet Nam while in Vietnamese he could write about life.
His more than 25 books in print and audio have been mainstays of Vietnamese bookstores everywhere except Viet Nam. His variety show, Paris By Night, is a place of the imagination for all Vietnamese, in diaspora and at home.
His success stoked envy in his peers. A red background in one of his music videos occasioned two volumes of fiery discussion about how Ngan secretly serves the Communists.
The affair stands as an example of what Ngan, a satirist, writes about, folly. My favorite novel, Coi Dem, shows a not particularly evil Vietnamese American on return to Saigon where he crushes the lives of all he meets in collisions of naivete and greed.
In “Two Ducks” and “My Communist Warden and I,” translated here by MacArthur genius Huynh Sanh Thong, Ngan shows his fellow Saigon intellectuals, brutalized by hunger in the re-education camps, trying to understand the uneducated robots who defeated them.
The stories rock brain and heart. They come from a Vietnamese in Canada, in touch but free from the rule of France, all the nations of the Pacific, the United States and any specific Vietnamese community.
O, Canada!
See the entries on Nguyen Ngoc Ngan at our Wikivietlit and the Wikipedia entries in English and Vietnamese.
Không chỉ đơn giản nghỉ hưu từ một cái gì đó , có một cái gì đó nghỉ hưu .
Công việc của người dân vẫn tiếp tục là tia lửa di chuyển nhân loại trước nhiều hơn so với làm việc theo nhóm .
hi, thanks for your comment. I fell ill not long before you wrote and am just now returning to work. We will bear your views in mind when we return to the topic of Nguyen Ngoc Ngan. Best, Dan
DAY LA MOT TEN TRI THUC “CHON LUI” CHUYEN MON BO DIT CONG SAN VIET GIAN BAN NUOC DE KIEM TI COM THUA , CANH CAN CUA CHUNG THAI RA. KARMA DA XAY RA CHO HAN MOT LAN ROI MA VAN CHUA CHUA.
Hi, we disagree. I will bear your views in mind as we continue to return to the topic of Nguyen Ngoc Ngan and his work. Best, Dan
Nguyen ngoc Ngan noi Internet la mot “garbage can”. Cho nen han khong bao gio dung den . Xin loi , tai han stupid , khong biet xu dung Internet cho nen moi noi the. Bay gio ca ong cu , ba cu 75 tuoi con biet xu dung nhuyen nhu ma han khong biet thi han da di nguoc lai the gioi van minh khoa hoc tien tien roi. Ro la nhung ten” viet gian di bang dau goi” ngu bo me , chi biet guc mat vao lam toi moi cho cai dam ban nuoc, dang bien, ngu si dan don va vo nhan tinh, ac khong thua gi quy satan
Hi, I think i already replied to this comment. Best wishes, Dan
Nguyen ngoc Ngan noi Internet la mot “garbage can”. Cho nen han khong bao gio dung den . Xin loi , tai han stupid , khong biet xu dung Internet cho nen moi noi the. Ca the gioi tu gia tre lon be deu xu dung internet. Chi co Nguyen ngoc Ngan la ngoai le boi han qua dan don. Bay gio ca ong cu , ba cu 75 tuoi con biet xu dung nhuyen nhu ma han khong biet thi han da di nguoc lai the gioi van minh khoa hoc tien tien roi. Ro la nhung ten” viet gian di bang dau goi” ngu bo me , chi biet guc mat vao lam toi moi cho cai dam rung ru, moi ro, ban nuoc, dang bien, ngu si ,dan don va vo nhan tinh, ac khong thua gi quy satan la Cong san viet gian.
I appreciate your getting in touch. We disagree. I am aware of your view and will bear it in mind. Best wishes, Dan
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