To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Liberation of the Capital (October 10, 1954 - October 10, 2024), Tre Publishing House published the story and diary Luy Hoa by writer Nguyen Huy Tuong.
Luy Hoa is a film series that recreates 60 days and nights (from December 19, 1946 to February 17, 1947) when our army and people fought bravely to protect the capital, opening the resistance war against the French of the whole nation. Sixty days and nights of determination to die for the Fatherland: 60 days and nights we see "Flowers on the ramparts".
The Flower Cluster takes readers back to those unforgettable days, witnessing the evacuation of people and the people holding guns to hold back the enemy. Through the transitions through the pen of writer Nguyen Huy Tuong, we see again the streets of Hanoi with Hang Gai, Hang Dao, Dong Xuan market,... and encounter the people of Hanoi from all classes and occupations. They fought, they worked, they loved each other.
In Luy Hoa, there is an intersection between the fierceness and intensity of fighting and the unique elegance of Hanoi. Amidst the sound of gunfire and grenades, when holes in the walls of houses connect the will of the capital, there are still kisses, banh chung and peach blossoms, the sound of music and couples. All are expressed through a refined style that is no less free-spirited, simple but no less talented.
Luy Hoa will help readers recall the glorious past of the country, understand and love Hanoi more, through the eyes of a person who devoted all his strength and heart to writing about the Capital. The film Luy Hoa as well as the novel Living Forever with the Capital, published after the author's death, are the results of a process in which Nguyen Huy Tuong devoted all his heart and soul to the topic of Hanoi, from the beginning of 1957 until the last days of his life, the summer of 1960.
Sharing the same theme of the fight to protect the capital, and the same inspiration about the land and people of Hanoi, the two works complement and respond to each other to become an organically connected whole.
Among them, the film Luy Hoa is not only considered a possible framework for the unfinished novel, but also has enough literary qualities to exist as a literary work with its own writing style. Nguyen Huy Tuong's diary has recorded quite thoroughly the process of writing these two works.
In particular, the book also includes photos of the manuscript pages of Luy Hoa, the first printed copy with Van Cao drawing the cover, and the diary of writer Nguyen Huy Tuong recording the process of composing Luy Hoa and Living Forever with the Capital.
In the preface of the book, Professor Phong Le said that Nguyen Huy Tuong, in the last period of his life, devoted almost all his vitality and energy to the theme of the resistance of the army and people of the capital, for a Hanoi that was always firmly in his mind throughout his artistic creation journey, from historical stories and plays written before 1945, such as Vu nhu To, Long Tri Night Festival... through the play Those Who Stay written about the people of Hanoi at the same time as him, at the beginning of the resistance against the French...
And only now is the time when he can look back at Hanoi with both clear features thanks to a time gap and a bit of the mist of nostalgia and history.
“If Living Forever with the Capital stops at the first three days and nights of the war, then Luy Hoa lets us witness the war that took place for 60 days and nights, until the Capital Regiment withdrew from Hanoi, to join the entire people in carrying out a long-term resistance, following the call of President Ho; along with a finale that leaves a strong romantic mark 7 years later when the victorious army returns, on the old streets...
That means Luy Hoa received the mission to complete the remaining part of Living Forever with the Capital - a novel that if Nguyen Huy Tuong could complete, would be the largest work of modern Vietnamese prose, up to the day the writer passed away", Professor Phong Le wrote.
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