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  2. Ru (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The novel tells the tale of a woman, An Tinh Nguyen, born in Saigon in 1968 during the Tet Offensive who immigrates to Canada with her family as a child.. The book switches between her childhood in Vietnam where she was born into a large and wealthy family, her time as a boat person when she left her country for a refugee camp in Malaysia, and her life as an early immigrant in Granby, Quebec.

  3. Nguyễn Nhật Ánh - Wikipedia

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    Nguyễn Nhật Ánh (born May 7, 1955 [1] [2]) is a Vietnamese author who writes for teenagers and adults. He also works as a teacher, poet and correspondent. His works include approximately 30 novels, 4 essays, 2 series and some collections of poems. He is regarded as one of Vietnam's most successful writers.

  4. Project Gutenberg - Wikipedia

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    Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3]

  5. The Sympathizer - Wikipedia

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    The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese-American professor and writer Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is a best-selling novel, [6] and recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The novel received generally positive reviews from critics. [7] It was named on more than 30 best book of the year lists and a New York Times Editor's Choice ...

  6. Comparison of e-book formats - Wikipedia

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    Because the format is designed to reproduce fixed-layout pages, re-flowing text to fit mobile device and e-book reader screens has traditionally been problematic. This limitation was addressed in 2001 with the release of PDF Reference 1.5 and Tagged PDF, [29] but third-party support for this feature was limited until the release of PDF/UA in 2012.

  7. Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally 'Chinese-Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese.

  8. Adventures of a Cricket - Wikipedia

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    The novel is about a cricket named Mèn [a] and his adventure in a human village and the animal kingdom. The cricket protagonist was originally featured in a 1941 short story by Hoài's Con Dế Mèn ("The Cricket") to the Tân Dân Publishing House , [ 1 ] which corresponds to the first three chapters of the modern edition. [ 2 ]

  9. Ticket to Childhood - Wikipedia

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    Ticket to Childhood (Vietnamese: Cho tôi xin một vé đi tuổi thơ, literally "Please Give me a ticket to Childhood") is a 2008 novella by Nguyễn Nhật Ánh.With this novella, Nguyễn Nhật Ánh was awarded S.E.A. Write Award in 2010.