The Legend of Watermelon / Quả Dưa Ðỏ: Phiêu-Lưu Tiểu-Thuyết (Vietnamese)
Author(s): Nguyễn Trọng Thuật
Watermelon is a novel by Nguyen Trong Thuat, published in 1925. The novel won the literary prize of Khai Tri Tien Duc Association. This new edition includes 12 illustrations by Ta Huy Long.
"The Legend of Watermelon" and the character Mai An Thiem are familiar to many, through many folk retellings. Nguyen Trong Thuat's writing makes the story of Mai An Tiem an adventure novel. This is a work about the country and its people, integrating elements of Vietnamese legends, culture and history. The work is considered as a significant marker of the Vietnamese national identity.
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“With this work, he [the author] is considered as one of the pioneer writers of novels in the national language in the North. It can be said that Nguyen Trong Thuat is one of a few writers at the beginning of the century who tried to maintain the national identity while simultaneously abbsorbing the new Western culture spread by the French"
- Researcher Nguyen Quang Tuan
General Fields
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- : Nhà Xuất Bản Văn học
- : 01 January 2022
- : 24.00 cmmm
- : books
Special Fields
- : 16cm x 24cm
- : Nguyễn Trọng Thuật
- : BC
- : "Tạ Huy Long "
- : vi
- : 314
- : Yes
