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Against the Flood

Văn Kháng Ma

出版	Curbstone Press, 2000
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / LiteraryFiction / Political
ISBN	18806846759781880684672
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lXRkAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Against the Flood caused a sensation in Vietnam when it was published in 1999 become of its controversial description of sex and politics in that country. The plot revolves around a writer, Khiem, whose book is banned and who is publicly censured by his contemporaries, while the tangled relationships in his own circle involve drug-trafficking and adultery. His lover, a pretty and intelligent woman, is slandered and sacked from her job. She leaves Hanoi and becomes involved in opium traffic in an attempt to investigate it, but is arrested before she can report the activities to the police. His wife, a smuggler, has an extramarital affair and dies during an abortion. Khiem arid his lover are finally reunited after a long separation. The novel presents a vivid picture of contemporary Vietnamese society, examining the dramatic tensions inherent in a changing society, and is imbued with the themes of friendship, love, and betrayal.