Love Like Hate (2011)
“He had just sacrificed a rook and a knight to corner his opponent’s queen. Focused on this imminent triumph, he never noticed his wife’s agonized face. As usual, the poets were arguing and Khanh Ly was singing Trinh Cong Son’s lyrics: Which grain of dust became my fleshTo blossom and rise up somedayO marvelous sand and dustThe sun lights a wandering fate The very next day, Kim Lan went out to buy all the items on Hoang Long’s list. It took her two days to finish shopping. So as not to arouse Sen’s suspicion, she kept everything at a neighbor’s house. She also went downtown to buy two round-trip train tickets to Hanoi, first class, two sleeping berths to a compartment. Knowing she would have to spend forty-eight hours on the train each way, she didn’t want to risk sleeping with strangers in a six-berth compartment, not with all the valuable things she had to bring her husband. The most precious was a tight wad of money stuffed into a plastic pouch, then inserted into a stinking jar of ...fermented shrimp paste.MoreLess
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