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Pham Thi Hoai

Pham Thi Hoai is a Vietnamese novel writer, author of La Messagère de cristal and Menu de Dimanche. She is the moderator of the forum Talawas.Org.

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“The clouds of war still hover over Vietnam”

by Pham Thi Hoai

8 May 2005

When I was born, the war was already underway. I lived it everyday for 15 years. But I was not an unhappy child. In North Viet Nam, during the 1960s and 70s, I thought war would last forever, like clouds in the sky. However, in 1975, we saw the advance of red flags in our school maps. Everyday, (…)