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"Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in...
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Người Việt Books
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2014.
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Vietnamese
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Essays on social life in Vietnam. Canh Co, a blogger living in Viet Nam, writes about what he sees and thinks about life in Viet Nam, seeing how citizens of Viet Nam deal with the struggles they face everyday under the administration of a group of people who think only of their own power and privileges. His blogs appear frequently of the website of Radio Free Asia, and are considered by Vietnamese the world over the hottest blogs at the present time....
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Tuttle Pub
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©2008
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English
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"Tuttle Concise Vietnamese Dictionary" is the most up-to-date compact Vietnamese dictionary available today. It is designed for English speakers who are studying Vietnamese, traveling to Vietnam, or using the language on a daily basis to interact with Vietnamese speakers. It has both Vietnamese-to-English and English-to-Vietnamese sections.
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