NOT TO BE MISSED! Playlist for The Lotus Eaters: Song #5 Vong Co
This music is wonderful. Please give it a try!
5) Vong Co (Nostalgia of the Past), Nguyen Thanh Thuy. This classical musician plays the Vietnamese instrument called the dan tranh, which is a kind of plucked zither. You can find her on YouTube, and her album “Doc Tau Dan Tranh” is well worth hunting for. Listen to the previous rock-and-roll songs, your head buzzing, and when you come to this it’s like slamming on the brakes while driving at 90 m.p.h. and shifting into reverse. You are literally transported into another universe. This is the piece I listened to when my characters briefly drop out of the war and go to an isolated village in the countryside. It is an opening into another culture.
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Tatjana Soli is a novelist and short story writer. Her bestselling debut novel, The Lotus Eaters, winner of the James Tait Black Prize, was a New York Times Notable Book, and finalist for the LA Times Book Award among other honors. Her stories have appeared...
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