Indie Spotlight: Village Teacher Translation

Great news! Nguyen Trong Hien (or neihtn), author of Village Teacher and The Siege of An Loc, has translated Village Teacher into Vietnamese. It has recently been published on an internet site out of Los Angeles. The first installment can be found here: Village Teacher Translation and in the links section below.

Here is a reposting of my 5-star review of the English version of Village Teacher.

Village Teacher by Neihtn, who also writes as Nguyên Trong Hiên, is a well-written novel set in Vietnam in the late 19th or early 20th century while Vietnam was under French colonization. Teacher Tâm has traveled to the Imperial City of Hue to take the national examinations, challenging tests that help the country choose its leaders. He meets Giang, the daughter of a powerful Frenchman and a wealthy Vietnamese woman. The teacher becomes the student as Giang begins teaching him to write Vietnamese in Romanized script without using Chinese characters. Outside forces begin to intervene in Tâm’s life in many ways, and the reader is taken on a journey through Vietnamese history, language, and customs as the Village Teacher and those who love him fight for his life and his rights.

This is such a beautiful historical love story. The author is an expert in Vietnamese history and I learned so much in this book. The struggles of Teacher Tâm are struggles that are being repeated even today as the wealthy and powerful try to hold down those of lesser means, especially the smart and talented. Over and over again we see in this book how some of the rich elite will use any means to try and destroy anyone who they believe threatens their total control. The love story is beautiful, and the reader gets a masterclass in Vietnamese history, language, and culture. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about the history of Vietnam or anyone who just wants to read a well-written historical love story.

LINKS

VIETNAMESE TRANSLATION

ENGLISH VERSION ON AMAZON

BEFORE YOU GO

Please share this far and wide so that we reach as many people as possible who speak Vietnamese and would be interested in the translation. Please also consider checking out the English version. It is fantastic, and Kindle Unlimited subscribers can read it for free. Be sure and leave a review!

Thanks as always for your consideration and sharing of great Indie books.