Open the Window, Eyes Closed
Nguyễn Ngọc Thuần, Trương Tiếp Trương (translator)
- Vietnam Tre Publishing House 2013
- 212tr. paperback, illustrations 19 cm
For the first time in Vietnam, a children book talks about tragedies, even deaths, in an uncompromising style and yet with such compassionate love. The writer's Vietnamese peers themselves have sung the work as another 'The little Prince'... The book has been unanimously praised since its first publication in 2002. The author, who was a painter professionally, became a celebrated writer overnight. Written for children, it's been the children book most widely read by grown-ups ever since.