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...would-be oppressor in Paradise of the Blind epitomizes the endurance of victims in modern Vietnam and their determination to survive with dignity. More a survival novel than a war novel, Paradise, in fact, completely passes over the years of American intervention in Vietnam. While some of author Duong Thu Huong's other works have shown war from the front lines--where she has had personal experience--this novel depicts the war at home and within, north...
...Duong Thu Huong presents an indelible portrait of three northern Vietnamese women and the sacrifices men and communist society wrest from them. The main characters of Paradise represent real women in Vietnam--not the extremes portrayed by the passive Phuong of Graham Greene's The Quiet American nor the whores of Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal lacket." Despite their ordinary occupations and status as second-class citizens, though, the women of Paradise are nothing short of extraordinary...
Vietnam has seen no major public demonstrations for greater democracy, though there has been a lively debate in some of the state-controlled press and among academicians and trade unions. In part this may be because Hanoi has ruled with a lighter touch than Beijing. Says Tran Phuoc Duong, the American- educated rector of Can Tho University, deep in the Mekong Delta: "Something has happened. There has been a lot of internal relaxation. The pace of change has taken people by surprise...
...Communists hit in a hundred places, from Quang Tri near the DMZ in the north all the way to Duong Dong on the tiny island of Phu Quoc off the Delta coast some 500 miles to the south. No target was too big or too impossible, including Saigon itself and General William Westmoreland's MACV headquarters. South Viet Nam's capital, which even in the worst days of the Indo-China war had never been hit so hard, was turned into a city besieged and sundered by house-to-house fighting...
Church creed stresses world peace and unity through a "revolution of the heart," Duong Ha '81 said. Ha arrived in the U.S. as a Vietnamese boat person...