The Crystal Messenger by Phạm Thị Hoài
An acerbic, experimental portrait of late-socialist Hanoi, narrated by a sharp-tongued young woman whose fragmentary memories and observations skewer family pieties, bureaucratic absurdities, and intellectual pretensions. Blending satire, surreal flashes, and lyrical introspection, it captures the claustrophobia of everyday life and a restless search for private autonomy. The result is a mordant, playful meditation on disillusionment, desire, and the possibility of truth in a world of sanctioned fictions.
- Published
- 1988
- Nationality
- Vietnamese
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- Vietnamese
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(3.0)
- Alternate Titles
- - Thiên sứ
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