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Parallels

Vũ Đình Giang

Illustrated by Nguyễn Thanh Vũ

Translated by Khải Q. Nguyễn

Samuel Tan (editor)

Major Books

Paperback

280pp

ISBN: 9781917233064

Fiction

Publication date: 30 June 2025

£12.99

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Widely considered as the best Vietnamese gay fiction, Parallels is Vũ Đình Giang’s debut novel.

G.g, H, and Kan are young, and homosexual. They soon find themselves caught up in a ménage à trois that forces them to grapple with devastating consequences rooted in exploitation, scars, and shames from their private pasts. Embedded in violence, insanity, betrayals, homoeroticism and surrealism, Parallels is a riveting account of how carnal and emotional traumas can determine how we love and hurt each other; an exquisite début that introduces readers to the astonishing gifts of Vũ Đình Giang’s imaginative power and distinctive style.

A hidden gem in contemporary Vietnamese literature, Parallels draws likely comparisons to the pages of Alan Hollinghurst, Édouard Louis, and Garth Greenwell.

Intense, complex and cinematic, this is the first gay novel from Vietnam to be available in the English language.