Blue Dragon, White Tiger

After four decades out of print, the first Vietnamese novel published in English in the United States returns at a prescient moment The year is 1967. Tran Van Minh, a Massachusetts professor recruited by the CIA, is sent home to Vietnam in the midst of war. While teaching at Hue University, Minh becomes more sympathetic to the Viet Cong—and increasingly skeptical of America's military involvement. Over the span of a decade and across three continents, Minh joins a communist sleeper cell, works underground at a Vietnam People's Army/North Vietnam command post and flies to Paris as a delegate of the National Liberation Front. As the country of his childhood changes before his eyes, he must find a way to live beyond its shores—and the past that it holds. Reprinted for the first time in over 40 years as part of Ink & Blood, Kaya Press' collaborative imprint with Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, Blue Dragon, White Tiger is the first Vietnamese American novel written in English and published in the United States. Tran Van Dinh (1923–2011), a native of Vietnam, served in the Vietnamese diplomatic corps in Thailand, Burma and Washington, DC. He taught international politics and communications at Temple University, where he chaired the Department of Pan-African Studies.