Sisters Chiang Nyyt ( Vietnamese Trần Nhựt ) - Sisters Chiang Nyyt Thanh Wang (Trần Nhựt Thanh Vân, born January 1, 1962 ) and Chiang Nyyt Kim (Trần Nhựt Kim, born October 24, 1963 ) - French writers of Vietnamese descent [1] .
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Biographies
Natives of Hue , Vietnam , from an educated family. In 1968, the family emigrated to the United States , in 1971 - to France , where the sisters live to this day.
Kim studied physics in France, Thanh Wang received a degree in mechanical engineering at the California Institute of Technology.
In 1999, the sisters began writing and publishing in French a series of books about a 17th century police officer in Vietnam. The prototype of the hero was the great-grandfather on the maternal side, an intelligent and courageous man who became a tangerine while still very young.
Bibliography
- "Temple of the Red Crane" (1999).
- “Shadow of the Prince” (2000), in this book the hero investigated the serial murder in the Vietnamese capital Thanglong (now Hanoi ).
- “Powder by Master Hou,” written by Thanh Wang based on notes prepared by both writers.
- The Bronze Wing, a book published in 2003. Here the young official returns to the village of his childhood when an ancient demon was revived there.
The following investigations also belong only to Thanh Wang: Spirit of the Fox (2005) and Oddities of Dr. Boar (Les Travers du docteur Porc) (2007).
Books are translated into Italian , Japanese , Spanish , Russian , German .
Series
The book opens with a crime scene, the cause of which is a violation of any prohibition, committing sin - profligacy , gluttony and others. Immediate punishment of a sinner is an investigated crime.
On the pages closest to the beginning of the book there is a scene with an ambiguous dialogue, which is perceived as humiliating, but has an innocent meaning.
Throughout the story, an atmosphere of horror is whipped up due to naturalistic details - the crime seems more and more perverse and disgusting. It is accomplished using biological technologies available to the knowledge of the 17th century. As a result of the investigation, the crime turns out to be much less cruel, a deliberate perversion - a coincidence of details. A special case of crime is associated with the turbulent political life of medieval Vietnam and Indochina as a whole.
To add exoticism, biological details are used - agriculture and animal husbandry, cooking, cosmetics, medicine.
Notes
- ↑ L'Esprit de la renarde - Tran Nhut | Beyond The Cover (link not available) . Date of treatment August 19, 2013. Archived July 25, 2013.