An English translation of the greatest Vietnamese literary classic, "The Tale of Kiều", by a bilingual Vietnamese poet who had published two other books on poetry and songs on Amazon.

Within a hundred-year lifespan in this earthly world, Genius and Destiny have a tendency to oppose each other. A turbulent mulberry-field-covered-by-sea period had passed. The things that we saw still deeply pain our hearts. It’s not strange that beauty may beget misery. The jealous gods tend to heap spites on rosy-cheeked beauties. Turning scented pages of an old volume under an oil lamp, I started reading a long-ago tale of love and romance. It was during the ...