| In this volume, ‘Zen Master’ Nguyen Chí Thien crafts seven stories in prose from his experience at the Hanoi Central Prison—the infamous Hanoi Hilton—where he spent six of a total of twenty-seven years in the Vietnamese gulag for the offense of writing poetry against the Communist regime. “Totalitarianism creates hell on earth. In Nguyen Chí Thien, that hell has found its Dante. Hoa Lo/Hanoi Hilton Stories is a tribute to the power of the human spirit over tyranny and of art over oblivion.” Michael Lind, Senior Whitehead Fellow The New America Foundation Dissident Vietnamese poet Nguyen Chí Thien lecturing at a Master’s Tea. Berkeley College, Yale University, in April 2005. (Photo by Jean Libby) |
| Commemorative edition of the Hoa Lo/Hanoi Hilton Stories hardback, with dust jacket and graphic poetry insert signed by the author |
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