Dang Thuy Tram’s diary has helped bring the war alive for a new generation of Vietnamese readers, said Seth Mydans in his article published in the International Herald Tribute (IHT) on May 30.
The author wrote that the diary tells of love, loneliness and death on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Moreover, the journey of the diary itself has given it a special postwar symbolism after Thuy Tram’s family received the diary from a former American soldier in 2005.
When it was first published in newspapers last year, people cut and saved the articles, passed them among their friends and read them aloud to each other. It was published as a book with 300,000 copies and became a best seller in Vietnam.
Mydans quoted Peter Zinoman, a professor of Vietnamese history at the University of California, as saying that two-thirds of the Vietnamese people were born after the war. The book has inspired traditional wartime values to the younger Vietnamese generation and Dang Thuy Tram herself has the honour of being the pantheon of wartime heroes.
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