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The musician Phạm Duy adapted The Tale of Kiều into an epic song cycle entitled Minh họa Kiều ("Illustrating Kieu") in 1997. The Tale of Kieu was the inspiration for the 2007 movie Saigon Eclipse , which moved the storyline into a modern Vietnamese setting with a modern-day immigrant Kiều working in the massage parlor industry in San ...
The story is about two half-sisters; the eldest is named Tấm (broken rice) and the youngest is named Cám (). [3]Tấm's mother dies early and her father remarries before dying soon after.
In Việt Điện U Linh Tập, Thánh Gióng is known as Sóc Thiên Vương (chữ Hán: 朔天王). This version does not specify when the story was set nor who was the enemy. It says in the old days, there was an enemy in the country, the king ordered his emissaries to find someone who can defeat the enemy.
Viet Thanh Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt; born March 13, 1971 [a]) is a South Vietnamese-born American professor and novelist. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California .
The Tailor of Gloucester, unlike the other episodes, begins with Potter's maid, Daisy, serving out mince pies to some carol singers who sing the Sussex Carol while Potter and her pet cat, Simpkin, listen to them, and it ends with pictures taken from the main story. Some of the episodes include storylines from two separate books, either told one ...
The alternative title (in English) is Harry Potter and the Relics of Death. [257] In Italy the title has been translated as Harry Potter e i doni della morte replacing "hallows" with "presents" because the word "relic" is often used in reference to the remains or personal effects of a saint. This variation was proposed and then approved by J.K ...
The Golden Starfruit Tree is one of Vietnamese fairy tales adapted by Cổ tích Việt Nam (lit. ' Vietnamese fairy tales '), a VHS series directed by Nguyễn Minh Chung based on Nguyễn Đổng Chi's folklore collection. [5] The episode was released in 1993, featuring Hồng Tơ, Tô Kiều Lan, Hoàng Thơi and Kim Anh. [6]
The Refugees is a 2017 short story collection by Viet Thanh Nguyen. [4] It is Nguyen's first published short story collection and his first book after winning the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer. The eight-story collection, set in different locations in California and Vietnam, earned favorable reviews from critics, particularly for offering ...