Vietnam

Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam, ed. by Linh Dinh (2006).
These 12 short stories from some of Vietnam's best writers (both in Vietnam and émigré) provide an interesting—if bleak—introduction to the voices of post-war Vietnam. In one compelling story, a young woman hires a baby boy from his homeless mother to gain sympathetic handouts from passersby at a Hanoi train station.

No Man's Land: A Novel, by Duong Thu Huong (2005). Dealing with life in post-war central Vietnam, this not-quite-romance by a famed dissident writer focuses on the choice a woman must make between her current husband and the one she thought died during the war.

Over the Moat, by James Sullivan (2004). Biking from Saigon to Hanoi, Sullivan makes a stop in Hue and meets a beautiful Vietnamese shop girl who lives over a moat and within the walls of Vietnam's old imperial capital. Despite cultural differences and the lobbying of other suitors for Thuy's hand, their true-life romance unfolds across villa courtyards, exquisite meals, and leisurely bike rides.