Đường Phía Bắc

A first ever novel based on true stories about the Vietnamese boat people en route to Hong Kong from the northern part of Vietnam.

"Ðu?ng Phía B?c (2012) [The Northern Route] (my translation) by Lê Ð?i Lãng, a writer living in Vietnam, is a rare book that brings together the accounts of many Northern Vietnamese boat people who did or did not make it to a third country. They face horrendous sea dangers, treacherous land dilemma, and rejections at the refugee camps for coming after the UNHCR has applied strict and arbitrary screening procedures for admittance to a third country. I argue (Glassey-Tranguyen, 2012b) that The Northern Route is a silenced history of the boat people coming from the North, whose experiences and stories remain shrouded and unknown in the Vietnamese diasporic historiography."

"Tôi cho r?ng Ðu?ng Phía B?c là m?t chuong s? câm nín c?a thuy?n nhân di t? mi?n B?c, vì kinh nghi?m và câu chuy?n c?a h? v?n còn b? phong kín và không du?c bi?t d?n trong l?ch s? Vi?t Nam h?i ngo?i."

(Dr. Glassey-Tranguyen, 2012b)

"Tác gi? Lê Ð?i Lãng dã có công và có lòng ghi l?i các câu chuy?n, các ho?t c?nh c?a con du?ng vu?t biên c?a d?ng bào mi?n B?c... Van tài c?a ông dã t?o d?ng l?i bi?t bao s? ph?n, bi?t bao th?m c?nh, bi?t bao n?i hy v?ng l?n th?t v?ng c?a nh?ng con ngu?i Vi?t Nam."

(Nhà van Ph?m Xuân Ðài)