The city is not without the word love

In recent years, the pen name Tong Phuoc Bao has been likened to a "strange bird" in the literary world, and has been recognized with a series of notable awards such as the B Prize of the Golden Pen Award in 2021 of the Ministry of Public Security , B Prize of the Literature and Arts Competition "50 Years of Ho Chi Minh City - The Heroic Epic" organized by the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City in 2024, B Prize of the Labor Newspaper Short Story Competition in 2023...

In the new work "From this city", the author is still confident in the thoughtful and sincere literature, with the way of maintaining a harmonious rhythm of language and emotions. The stories that breathe life so closely and are imbued with human love are spread out on each page, like a map leading readers to each emotional station corresponding to the three main themes.

In the first part, the author takes the reader back to "Old stories, old people cherish a land of love". Ho Chi Minh City, through the journey of "50 new springs", is still full of human love blossoming from millions of hearts, millions of hands building a new day. Also in this city, there are experiences that sound boring, but the author has discovered interesting and surprisingly useful things. For example, one day lost in the General Library - a good environment, clean of noise, thousands of books to focus on reading and writing to broaden the mind; or finding ancient traces in the Geological Museum with specimens and artifacts that make us stunned time and time again, revealing many interesting things.

The second emotional station is where readers can calm down and "Listen to the city's stories". Friends from far away often "ask the writer: "What is the specialty of this city?". Reading the book, you will see that "this city" is very strange. The specialty that makes people nostalgic is sometimes not in luxury restaurants or bustling shopping centers, but when we wander around the streets together, because the streets always have stories to tell. Each story of the street has taken on a cultural mission. And finally, the specialty that makes people unable to forget is human love. It is the human love here that has tolerantly opened its arms to all who come. So that if we leave, what we will carry in our hearts will be: "People who know how to love others", "Long road of love, wide street of humanity", and forever a notion of "this city cannot be without the word love".

The final emotional station is “The soul of the countryside, the taste of the small alleys” - because hundreds of small alleys in Saigon will connect hundreds of regions of nostalgia for the homeland. Because everyone wants to keep “the soul of the homeland, the origin”. So hundreds of delicious dishes follow them back through the years and months, penetrating into the nooks and crannies of the hearts of the citizens of this land. In “this city”, sometimes just asking the name of a dish, people will show you the way to that alley. We will hear our hearts moved and feel “love for the hometown soup, craving the smell of the delta”, or we will see that there is indeed a “unique Saigon, eat it once, remember it for a lifetime”…

Honestly, at any time, readers can come to the prose pages in “From this city”, when they come across titles that seem to appeal to the feelings they are carrying, take the words into their hearts and feel the “portraits of life” of a city that has a soul, because the life and people here are always understood.

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