Khanh Ha

• Apr-2000
• / General Fiction
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In a leper colony, the damned are quarantined; the damned are banished, untouchable, to dim crouching hutsforever. This is where Phong Nguyen, a Vietnamese emigrant, finds himself in the end of his journey to the Promised LandAmerica. His damnation b...

• Jun-2012
• / Historical
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The setting is Tonkin (northern Vietnam) at the turn of the 20th century. A boy, Tai, witnesses the beheading of his father, a notorious bandit, and sets out to recover his head and then to find the man who betrayed his father to the authorities. On ...

• Nov-2014
• / General Fiction
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Set in post-war Vietnam, The Demon Who Peddled Longing tells the terrible journey of a nineteen-year-old boy in search of the two brothers who are drifters and who raped and killed his cousin also his girl. It brings together the damned, the unfit, t...

• Apr-2019
• / General Fiction
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"I live in a coastal town in the deep south of the Mekong Delta. During the war this was IV Corps, which saw many savage fights. Although the battles might have long been forgotten, some places cannot forget." Thus begins the harrowing yet poignan...

• Oct-2021
• / General Fiction
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A Mother's Tale is a tale of salvaging one's soul from received and inherited war-related trauma. Within the titular beautiful story of a mother's love for her son is the cruelty and senselessness of the Vietnam War, the poignant human connection, an...

• Oct-2023
• / General Fiction
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Winner of the Gival Press Novel AwardIn this almost folkloric saga of a royal eunuch, his adopted daughter and the tragedies and triumphs of love in their lives from the days of the emperor's court to the war with America, Khanh Ha takes us deeply in...

• May-2024
• / General Fiction
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The short stories in this collection encompass a whole series of settings and scenarios: from modern day to the time of the Emperors; from Vietnam war zones to royal palaces, fishing villages, and crowded riverboats. Each story is a world of its ...

• / General Fiction
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From Vietnam to America, this story collection, jewel-like, evocative, and layered, brings to readers a unique sense of love and passion alongside tragedy and darker themes of peril. The titular story features a love affair between an unlikely duo pu...