"Paradise of the Blind"

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This paper summarizes, "Paradise of the Blind", one of the first Vietnamese novels translated into English and published in North America. The paper then analyzes each of the main characters in the novel and explains how they deal with the conflict that exists between living a life of the past or living a life that embraces the future.

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""Paradise of the Blind" is the first Vietnamese novel to be translated into English and published in North America. The story relates the tale of Hang, a Vietnamese woman of the 1980s, who works in a Russian textile factory, and is traveling to a new job in Moscow that her Uncle, a high ranking member of the Communist Party, obtained for her. The novel takes place mostly in Hang's memory as she remembers her family, her life, and how the Vietnam War changed her country forever."

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