Anyone who wants to literary deal with Vietnam will, in Kim Thuy's novel "The sound of the stranger" (Munich 2010) poetic reminiscences of a joyful and painful time in Southeast Asia, to which so many prominent Buddhist illusions and utopias gave. An excerpt (p. 148):
"My cousins were only ten years old but she already had a past because they were an extinct Saigon was born and grew up in the darkest time of Vietnam.. laughingly told them of how they masturbated at that time for a bowl of soup to two thousand men dong. Unabashed and outspoken, they described this sexual practice, with the innocence and purity of five-or six-year-old children in prostitution exclusively with adults and had money to do and they and not their peers, they exercised for a meal for fifteen cents, concerned. I listened to them, without comment, without turning around, without the sewing stop, I wanted her naive words, do not sully their innocence through my eyes. "
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