New Vietnamese Typographic Sample: những tin tức về một ngôi làng

Nguyễn Thanh Hiện’s những tin tức về một ngôi làng (chronicles of a village) is a historical fiction based on a nameless village and told through a nameless scribe. The entire novel is written in lowercase letters and without any periods to give an oral tradition of storytelling. The series of story are fragmented mixing mythology with history. I selected a few chapters to introduce this fascinating work of literary. I included Nguyễn Thanh Hiện’s original Vietnamese text as well as Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng’s outstanding English translation. The sample is typeset in Newsreader, designed by Hugues Gentile and Jean-Baptiste Levée. Check out the Vietnamese-English typographic sample page.