Nguyen Ngoc Tu's Call of the Horizon or the Comings and Goings of Pursuit

The Call of the Horizon is the latest book by Nguyen Ngoc Tu. The book consists of 27 essays about the movement and the comings and goings of people. Not as vague and abstract as Troi but still opens up things to ponder.

Book The Call of the Horizon - Photo: Tre Publishing House

From the title, The Call of the Horizon focuses on people forced to throw themselves into trips of coming and going, pulled by home and far away places, going because of ties or to untie ties.

Those are the young people in the villages where the figure of young people is increasingly scarce, those are the children who leave their childhood homes, for freedom and the future: "They are bustling to follow the call of friends, of the boys (girls) they secretly love, of the monsoons, of distant horizons".

Through Nguyen Ngoc Tu's writings, readers see that people cannot stop looking far away, hoping to find a piece of sky that belongs to them.

Perhaps it is human nature, no matter what the circumstances we keep moving because maybe there is a ray of light on the horizon.

This book also pays special attention to the status of women. They are those who have given up their "wings", struggling within their own roofs and bodies. They are bound by the duties and responsibilities of being wives and mothers.

It is those things that frame them, making them seem like nobody: "Men don't have wings, they just hide their wives' wings"; "As long as a mother doesn't have wings, she will still be by her side".

The anxiety about the environment and climate of a suffering West is also heavy in every word of the book.

That is when drought and water shortages increasingly threaten people more seriously: "The whole land is seriously ill, the symptoms are no longer silent, they appear on the surface."

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Source: https://tuoitre.vn/tieng-goi-chan-troi-cua-nguyen-ngoc-tu-hay-nhung-cuoc-di-ve-cua-muu-cau-20250717095645426.htm