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Title: disappointing book
Review: As a bilingual native of Vietnam, I was very interested in reading this translation. Unfortunately, it turned out to be quite disappointing. Although the poems are nice, they have little relation to the actual Vietnamese. The translators appear to have simply translated the poems literally word for word, perhaps using a dictionary, without understanding any of the idioms upon which they were based.Nice poems but they are more the poetry of John Balaban than Ho Xuan Huong.
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