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Nguyen Nhat Anh

Biography

Nguyen Nhat Anh

Nguyen Nhat Anh is an acclaimed writer who has published many stories and novels for adults and children, though GIVE ME A TICKET TO CHILDHOOD is his first book to appear in English.  He has won many prizes, including the southeast Asian Writers Award.  He lives in Ho Chi Minh City.

Nguyen Nhat Anh

Books by Nguyen Nhat Anh

by Nguyen Nhat Anh - Fiction

GIVE ME A TICKET TO CHILDHOOD is the story of a man looking back on his life. As we learn of the small miracles and tragedies that made up the narrator’s life --- the misadventures and the misdeeds --- we meet his long-lost friends, none of whom can forget how rich their lives once were. And even if Nguyen Nhat Anh can’t take us back to our own childhoods, he captures those innocent times with a great deftness.

Written by Nguyen Nhat Anh, translated by William Naythons - Fiction

The best selling book in the history of modern Vietnam, GIVE ME A TICKET TO CHILDHOOD has been nothing short of a sensation in its home country. The story of a man looking back on his life, GIVE ME A TICKET TO CHILDHOOD captures the texture of childhood in all of its richness. As we learn of the small miracles and tragedies that made up the narrator’s life --- the misadventures and the misdeeds --- we meet his long-lost friends, none of whom can forget how rich their lives once were.