Phan Thi Trong-Tuyen

Hong Dang Tai Amsterdam Phan Thi Trong-Tuyen

This book, Hong dang tai Amsterdam (The Red Light in Amsterdam) is a collection of novellas and short stories by one of the leading Vietnamese women writers in the modern time, Phan Thi Trong Tuyen. For her, nothing is more sacred than the beloved motherland, but, ironically, she has been exiled from it for most of her adult life. Perhaps, that is the reason why she chose to be a writer, a story teller, because, as manifested in the book, stories are for joining the past to the present, it's like a bridge between the forgetting homeland and the real life in diasporas. The stories as told in the book are rich in details and full of emotion, depicting the flights from turmoil by Vietnamese women, who are struggling and trying to survive under the ferocious wheels of History and of modern societies.