Love Like Hate

Praise for Linh Dinh:"[Linh] Dinhrs"s abrupt epiphanies mix A.D.D. with Thoreaurs"s economy, Calvinors"s globe-trotting, and a pungent eroticism reminiscent of Kawabatars"s Palm-of-the-Hand Stories ."- The Village Voice"[Linh Dinhrs"s Blood and Soap ] owes a certain debt to Jorge Luis Borges, but uses Borgesian metafiction and genre-bending to depict a sense of absurdity, confusion, and displacement peculiar to being a contemporary world citizen."-Matthew Sharpe, The Brooklyn Rail"[Linh] Dinh reveals a refreshing sense of utter irreverence and experimental fun."- AsianWeekProtagonists Kim Lan and Hoang Long marry in Saigon during the Vietnam War, uniting in a setting that allows Linh Dinhrs"s dark, deadpan humor to flourish. Describing his mushrooming cast of characters in unsentimental and sometimes absurd ways, Dinh embraces contradictions with the surreal exuberance of Matthew Sharpe and the stylistic eacute;lan of Italo Calvino.A recipient of the Pew Fellowship, the David T. Wong Fellowship, and the Asian American Literary Award, Linh Dinh is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House and Blood and Soap ; and four books of poems, All Around What Empties Out , American Tatts , Borderless Bodies , and Jam Alerts . He is editor of the anthologies Night, Again and Three Vietnamese Poets . Love Like Hate is his first novel.

A recipient of a Pew Foundation grant, a David T. Wong Fellowship, a Lannan Residency and, most recently, the Asian American Literary Award, LINH DINH was born in Saigon in 1963 and emigrated to the United States in 1975. An acclaimed and provocative writer of short stories and contemporary fables, he is also the author of several books of poems and a novel, Love Like Hate. Linh has edited the anthologies Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam and Three Vietnamese Poets. His collection of stories, Blood and Soap was chosen by the Village Voice as one of the Best Books of 2004. Linh's nonfiction essays have been published regularly at Unz Review, LewRockwell, Intrepid Report and CounterCurrents, and his blog, Postcards from the End of America (linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com), is followed by thousands of readers. He has also published widely in Vietnamese.