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The Kim Dong Publishing House, in collaboration with the French Institute in Vietnam, organized an event on March 12 in Hanoi to introduce a graphic novel called “Song” by Vietnamese-French author Tran Hai Anh and French illustrator Pauline Guitton, as reported by VNS. In “Song,” a mother recounts her teenage years spent in hiding during the Vietnam-US war. From 1969 to 1975, the mother, who is now a director, spent seven years with her scriptwriter father in the forests with Vietnamese revolutionary soldiers. Her father introduced her to the national resistance movement and to film. This story of a Vietnamese woman in a lesser-known period of history becomes a portrait of the complex relationship that Hai Anh has with her mother and her roots. The cover of the graphic novel ‘Song’. Photo courtesy of Ankama Publishing “Song” is a word that came to mind when my mother told me about her adventures during her teenage years,” Hai Anh said at the book launching ceremony at K...