Love Like Hate: A Novel

by Linh Dinh

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Linh Dinh weaves a dysfunctional family saga that doubles as a portrait of Vietnam in the last 50 years. Protagonists Kim Lan and Hoang Long marry in Saigon during the Vietnam War, uniting in a setting that allows Dinh's dark, deadpan humour 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 elan of Italo Calvino.

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Artist and writer Linh Dinh was born in Saigon in 1963, came to the United States in 1975, and after 24 years returned to live in Ho Chi Minh City in 1998. Dinh is the author of a chapbook of poems, "Drunkard Boxing" (Singing Horse Press, 1998), and the editor of a short story anthology, "Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam" (Seven show more Stories Press, 1996). In 1993, he was the recipient of a Pew Charitable Trust fellowship for his poetry. His stories, poems, translations, and reviews have appeared in recent issues of the "Threepenny Review", "New American Writing", "Chicago Review", "Sulfur", "Denver Quarterly", "American Poetry Review", "New York Stories", and "Volt", among other journals. His prose poem, "The Most Beautiful Word," has been anthologized in "Best American Poetry 2000". (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Romance
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
LCC
PS3554 .I494 .L68Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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