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Blood and Soup
Stories
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by Linh Dinh
Seven Stories Press
Due/Published
May 2004, 160 pages,
paper
ISBN
1583226427
Edgy and hard-hitting, pure and sublime, Blood and Soap is award-winning Linh Dinh's newest collection of short stories. Dinh's incisive, tightly woven prose peeks into the extraordinary lives of men and women in Vietnam, America and Europe. Here are ghost stories of a haunted Vietnamese hotel and wildly clever parables concerning a rich man and his poor friend. The meaning of true freedom and independence are explored when a white Southerner in 19th-century America swaps roles with his slave. A young man in Vietnam becomes obsessed with an invented language and poses as an English teacher. A New Yorker watches his neighbor practice English by shouting headlines from tabloids. A convicted serial killer examines his relationship with women, while his cellmate views his wife's murder and his subsequent imprisonment as the fulfillment of destiny. A "happy couple" exchanges pleasantries during the day but are abusive in their sleep. Artist and writer Linh Dinh was born in 1963 in Saigon, and came to the U.S. in 1975. |
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