The Tale of Kiêu; A bilingual edition of Nguyen Du`s Truyên Kiêu
, by Translated by Hùynh Sanh Thông; With an Historical Essay by Alexander B. WoodsidNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780300040517 | 0300040512
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 9/10/1987
Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. Huynh's new and absorbingly readable translation (on pages facing the Vietnamese text) is illuminated by notes that give comparative passages from the Chinese novel on which the poem was based, details on Chinese allusions, and literal translations with background information explaining Vietnamese proverbs and folk sayings.