SOURCE: Nguyên, Dình-Hoà. Review of The Lonesome Moon, by Hoàng Thi Dáo-Tiêp. World Literature Today 68, no. 1 (winter 1994): 223-24.

In the following review, Nguyên offers a favorable assessment of Hoàng Thi Dáo-Tiêp's The Lonesome Moon.

The Lonesome Moon is a collection of short stories by the refugee writer Hoàng Thi Dáo-Tiêp, whose first novel, Dăm khuya (On the Road Late at Night; see WLT [World Literature Today] 67:1, p. 241), has been widely acclaimed by readers all over the world. The fourteen stories depict the lives of Vietnamese refugees from all walks of life, now busy making a living and trying hard to adapt to the American environment.

“Vâng trăng lé ban”, the title story, is about Lê, a brave schoolteacher whose fiancé has perished during their attempted escape from Vietnam, together with the wife and...