Source of love

Each writer always has his or her own unique reality, on that land they will have their own personal ways to explore many layers and express many emotional vibrations. Author Tran Thi Thuy Linh is no exception. She was born in 1976, currently living and writing in Soc Trang. With a sincere creative mindset, each of her words always tries to express the colors of the Southwest countryside. Up to now, she has had many poems and essays published in many books. The collection of essays with a simple but emotional title "Land of Love" published by Kim Dong Publishing House has conveyed her creative spirit.

Reading the essays of “Land of Love”, each person will gradually feel the artistic space that the author evokes. The vastness of the homeland landscape thus creates waves, touching people’s hearts. The author’s writing style is refined but full of emotion to name and then honestly express his own stories on the page. His tone is calm, intimate, revealing to the reader his own concerns with what has happened in his life.

The world of the book is therefore a connection of many simple images, the colors of childhood paintings, the movements of rustic rural life. All resonate to highlight the author's confession throughout the book: "...And I have also been a person far from home many times, when I see the image of my homeland, the peaceful memories with my mother, with my childhood friends always appear. I always have a countryside to love."

Essays are always a genre that has its own advantage in bringing special emotions to readers. Each essay in the book naturally makes readers imagine the colors of the author's own memories. There, readers will have moments to be immersed in the floating lives of merchants, the fates of people who have made rivers and places like Nga Nam, Nga Bay into "floating markets on the river".

The shop symbolizes the simple buying and selling, encapsulating many difficult sounds of the life of people in the West. The sound of the wagtail bird echoes throughout the countryside, associated with the distant childhood days, but still echoes forever, urging the subject to deep thoughts about the peaceful land, about the core values. And the paper boats of childhood forever remain in memory, but the consciousness of memory always makes those images stir...

All of these have created a rain of memories, a rain that has made the years of playing war games with the reed banks green again. Through the pages of the book, the author has shown the spirit of preserving the past, so that the past is always alive and is the source, the sky that preserves the beauty of the soul: "Every new day that passes, I sow more seeds of dreams. I also sow seeds of love on the land of my homeland. And I believe that the green shoots of the future will grow from there." Therefore, the book has created special connecting threads, and readers can have deep sympathy when immersed in the slices of memories that the author shows.

Reading the essay collection “Land of Love”, readers can also feel the author’s feelings about time and the times, about the flow of time without return. Each essay, although expressing different moments, ultimately leads to clarifying the subject’s own worries and regrets about time: “Time keeps flowing like a silent river, the shore is silted up and eroded. Human life also follows that time, changing many times”.

Following that flow, the author expresses regret for the changes of the times, the negative side of development that has caused many old values ​​of the homeland and villages to fade away. Then, behind each story of each essay is a long reflection and concern. That makes the reader dialogue with the author, the reader finds the deep origin and then awakens in themselves noble thoughts. "The car runs smoothly over the new bridges across the river and canals. The ferry stations gradually have fewer passengers, and then there is no one to ferry the boat anymore".

The emotional lines are like the faithful diary pages of the heart. Readers realize that deep inside the confessions is the heart of a native son for his homeland and family. Existing in each page of writing are the figures of the old people, the people who gave birth to and gave the subject the most beautiful memories in life.

The mother is always a warm sun. The father is a silent merchant. The beloved mother's hometown is associated with small boats leisurely rowing on the water. The writer's heart is expressed in a truthful way but also enough to touch the depths. The story in the book is therefore expanded in scope, it is the common voice of many people, of those who have for themselves a rustic countryside but full of nostalgia.

The simple things crystallized from the nostalgic stream of author Tran Thi Thuy Linh in “Land of Love” have come to readers sincerely. The author’s childhood memories printed boldly on 27 essays have soothed the reader’s soul, giving each person slow moments amidst the hasty flow of life to cherish the present more. Once again, the book has deeply affirmed the value of memories, that in any circumstance, memories are always the source of love and true values ​​in life.

TRAN NGOC

Source: https://baodanang.vn/channel/5433/202503/mach-nguon-yeu-thuong-4002883/