“Living” is a story about a mother telling her daughter about the thrilling memories throughout the time she lived and worked in the war zone. With two timelines of the past and present and interwoven characters, the book depicts the images of two women in parallel: One is the young girl in her mother’s memory, the young girl tries to adapt and integrate into life in the war zone. The other is a modern young woman trying to connect with her mother and the past, to understand more about her mother and her roots.
Interwoven with the mother’s stirring memories of the past is her present life, portrayed from the daughter’s perspective. The young girl named Linh has now become a famous contemporary director in Vietnam, but somewhere inside her she is still influenced by the past.
Scene of the book launch event "Living the moments of communion".
Those experiences had a great impact on her life and her relationship with her daughter. The Vietnamese girl born and raised in France had a lot of difficulty connecting with her mother who lived during the war, connecting with her Vietnamese roots.
Through each story, the child gradually understands more about his mother and the past of his nation, thereby sympathizing, sharing, and building a bridge to shorten the gap between generations and cultures.
The generational stories of mother and daughter in “Living” both contribute to recreating the history of the nation from a rarely mentioned perspective, and depict the complex relationship between mother and daughter, along with the desire to learn about the roots of a young Vietnamese person born and raised abroad.
The book "Living" by author Hai Anh and French artist Pauline Guitton.
Through the vivid drawings of a talented young French artist, the comic pages of “Song” have outlined a piece of the nation’s historical memory, sketching images of Vietnamese people during the resistance war and today, and at the same time sketching out the youthful sympathies of two generations of mother and child; resistance – peace; nation – integration... The book is a bridge connecting the past with the present, connecting the two cultures of France and Vietnam.
At the launch event, readers listened to the sharing of the authors and the central character of the work "Living" - director Viet Linh about the youth of a time of fire and war in the resistance zone, to better understand the lives of previous generations, learn more about the lives of second-generation Vietnamese children abroad, from here, adding to national pride.
In addition, readers in Hanoi also had the opportunity to interact with author Hai Anh and artist Pauline Guitton to learn more about the comic book publishing industry in France and the journey of the book Song to launch to French and Vietnamese readers.
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