In recent years, the pen name Tong Phuoc Bao has been likened to a "strange bird" in the literary world, and has been recognized with a series of notable awards such as the B Prize of the 2021 Golden Pen Award of the Ministry of Public Security , the B Prize of the Literature and Arts Competition "50 Years of Ho Chi Minh City - The Heroic Epic" organized by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee in 2024, the B Prize of the Labor Newspaper Short Story Competition in 2023...
In the new work "From this city", the author is still convinced of the thoughtful and sincere literature, with the way of keeping the rhythm of language and emotions harmonious. The stories that breathe life so closely and are imbued with human love are spread out on each page, like a map leading readers to each emotional station corresponding to the three main themes.
In the first part, the author takes readers back to "Old stories, old people cherish a land of love". Ho Chi Minh City, through the journey of "50 new springs", is still full of human love blossoming from millions of hearts, millions of hands building a new day. Also in this city, there are experiences that sound boring, but the author has discovered interesting and surprisingly useful things. For example, one day lost in the General Library - a good environment, clean of noise, thousands of books to focus on reading and writing to broaden the mind; or finding ancient traces at the Geological Museum with specimens and artifacts that make us stunned time and time again, revealing many interesting things.
The second emotional station is where readers can calm down and “Listen to the city’s stories”. Friends from far away often “ask the writer: “What is the specialty of this city?”. Reading the book, you will see that “this city” is very strange. The specialty that makes people miss it is sometimes not in the luxurious restaurants or the bustling shopping centers, but when we wander around the streets together, because the streets always have stories to tell. Each story of the street has taken on a cultural mission. And finally, the specialty that makes people unable to forget is human love. It is the human love here that has tolerantly opened its arms to all who come. So that if we leave, what we will bring with us in our hearts will be: “People who know how to love others”, “The long road of love, the wide street of righteousness”, and forever a notion of “this city cannot be without the word love”.
The final emotional station is “The soul of the countryside, the taste of the small alleys” - because hundreds of small alleys in Saigon will connect hundreds of regions of nostalgia for the homeland. Because everyone wants to keep “the soul of the homeland, the origin”. So hundreds of delicious dishes follow them back through the years, infiltrating the nooks and crannies of the hearts of the people of this land. In “this city”, sometimes just asking for the name of a dish, people will show you the way to that alley. We will hear our hearts moved and feel “love for the hometown soup, craving the smell of the delta”, or we will see that there is truly a “unique Saigon, eat it once, remember it for a lifetime”…
Honestly, at any time, readers can come to the prose pages in "From this city", when they come across titles that seem to appeal to the feelings they are carrying, taking the words into their hearts to feel the "portraits of life" of a city that has a soul, because the life and people here are always understood.
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