Book The Call of the Horizon - Photo: Tre Publishing House
From the title, The Call of the Horizon focuses on people forced to throw themselves into trips back and forth, pulled by home and far away places, going because of ties or to untie ties.
They are the young people in the villages where the presence of young people is increasingly scarce, they are the children who leave their childhood homes, for freedom and the future: "They follow the call of their friends, of the boys (girls) they secretly love, of the monsoon winds, of distant horizons".
Through Nguyen Ngoc Tu's writings, readers see that people cannot stop looking far away, hoping to find a piece of sky that belongs to them.
Perhaps it is human nature, no matter what the circumstances, we keep moving forward because maybe there is a ray of light on the horizon.
This book also pays special attention to the status of women. They are those who have given up their "wings", struggling within their own roofs and bodies. They are bound by the duties and responsibilities of being wives and mothers.
It is these things that frame them, making them seem like nobody: "Men don't have wings, they just hide their wives' wings"; "As long as mothers don't have wings, they will still be by their side".
The anxiety about the environment and climate of a hard-working West is also heavy in every word of the book.
That is when drought and water shortage increasingly threaten people more seriously: "The whole land is seriously ill, the symptoms are no longer silent, they appear on the surface".
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/tieng-goi-chan-troi-cua-nguyen-ngoc-tu-hay-nhung-cuoc-di-ve-cua-muu-cau-20250717095645426.htm
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