"Is that you I'm reading about?" asks Nguyen Van Dung's aunt, phoning from the U.S. Her nephew and I had just sat down in a Hanoi café to talk about Bong , a book about his life as a gay man in Vietnam, when she called his cell phone.
Dung's notoriety is new. For most of his 41 years, he has lived as a shadow the English translation of the book title (and a derogatory Vietnamese term for homosexuals). "We are considered ill or deviant," he says....
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