Good essay: Bamboo village in the nostalgia of a child living far away from home

(Baonghean.vn) - Like many other villages in Vietnam, the village of this essayist has also changed along with the country's modernization. The lush green bamboo bushes of the past are gone, the roads have been paved with concrete, but to compensate for the emptiness are the curved bamboo tops at the edge of the village and the Tet poles. "The soul of the village is still somewhere," the author knows, and the essay ends with these thoughtful but warm thoughts.