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The Women on the Island by Ho Anh Thai, translated by Phan Thanh Hao, Celeste Bacchi, and Wayne Karlin [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

Women on the IslandFrom one of Vietnam’s most prolific writers, The Women on the Island offers a rare glimpse into post-war Vietnam, surely an unfamiliar scenario to most English-readers, about the lonely, isolated inhabitants assigned to the jungle island of Cat Bac.

Review: “Works in Translation,” aMagazine: Inside Asian America, October/November 2001

Readers: Adult

Published: 2001 (United States)

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