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Nguyen Chi Thien. Hoa dia-ngue / The Flowers of Hell. Nguyen Ngoc Bich, tr. Arlington, Va. To-hop Xuat-ban Mien Dong Hoa-ky. 1996. 552 pages, ill. $25.
The Flowers of Hell is the bilingual edition of a collection of poignant poems by the Vietnamese dissident Nguyen Chi Thien (see WT,T59:3, p. 490), who was finally allowed to leave his country and settle in the United States early in 1995. The book consists of a preface, the poems (presented in three parts), an epilogue, a biographical note, a list of poem titles in Vietnamese and in English, and expressions of international acclaim by writers, critics, and human-rights activists from all over the world....