Love like Hate: A Novel

Linh Dinh is already one of the secret masters of short fiction. Love Like Hate is something like a traditional cross-cultural novel that's been shocked into life by Dinh's uncanny ability to tell us stories wedidn't even know we wanted to hear. — Ed Park, editor of The Believer

In Love Like Hate, Linh Dinh weaves a dysfunctional family saga that doubles as a portrait of Vietnam in the last half century. ProtagonistsKim Lan and Hoang Long marry in Saigon during the Vietnam War, uniting in a setting that allows Dinh's dark, deadpan humor to flourish. Describing his mushrooming cast of characters in unsentimental and sometimes absurdways, Dinh embraces contradictions with the surreal exuberance of Matthew Sharpe and the stylistic eeacute;lan of Italo Calvino.