Tice Cin interviews Thuận

Tice Cin interviews writer Thuận, alongside translator Trà My Hickin, about her new novel Chinatown. Thuận’s twelfth novel and the first to be translated into English, Chinatown takes place over the couple of hours that a mother and her son wait in a stopped Metro carriage. As she waits, she is assailed by recollections of her son’s father and their shared adolescence in Hanoi, her university years in Leningrad, and her life now in Paris and its suburbs. Tice and Thuận spoke about dreaming, walking, time and how the act of translating between Vietnamese, French and English affords new linguistic opportunity.