The Tale of Kieu: A Bilingual Edition of Nguyen Du's Truyen Kieu

The Tale of Kieu: A Bilingual Edition of Nguyen Du's Truyen Kieu Paperback – September 10, 1987 by Huynh Sanh Thong (Translator).

Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. Thông’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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 216 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 210 x 20.83mm | 318g
• Publication date 10 Sep 1987
• Publisher Yale University Press
• Publication City/Country United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement Revised ed.
• ISBN10 0300040512
• ISBN13 9780300040517