The Brocaded Slipper and other Vietnamese Tales

Here, from the far-off country of Vietnam, are five enchanting fairy tales. They are reassuringly familiar, and at the same time, wondrously different.

There’s Cinderella-Tam, to the Vietnamese-mis-treated by her stepfamily, befriended by a fairy, and rescued by a prince. But even a royal marriage doesn’t end this Cinderella’s problems…

There’s tiny Little Finger, who, like Thumbelina, is rewarded for her patience and kind heart with the perfect mate and a queen’s throne…

There’s even Rip Van Winkle, in the person of Tu Thuc, who returns from a short stay in a fairy grotto to find his old home changed and the people he once knew dead and long forgotten…

Readers will be delighted to meet these old friends and others in fascinating new settings that bring to life the people and atmosphere of an ancient and abiding land.