Great Translations: Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Hurong

A North Vietnamese landscape from travelsense.asia

As my One Minute Geographer friends on Medium know, I am a geographer. I enjoy reading modern translations of novels into English because you get a good read and you learn a bit about life in other countries, the people and their culture. Novels that are translated are often award-winners in their home country, such as the Prix Goncourt in France, the Strega Prize in Italy, or the…