Vietnam Women's Publishing House has just introduced the book " high-class children" by author Ngo Hieu Lac. The story revolves around the efforts of an upper class family in Taiwan (China) to send their children to school.
Calculations in marriage, work and relationships, sometimes seem to have achieved their goals, sometimes thousands of years apart, even almost leading to family breakups.Although set in Taiwan (China), the story has many similarities with the psychology of many Vietnamese couples.
The main character in the book is Tran Van Nhan, a girl from a small province, always dreaming of escaping from her hometown.studying at university in Taipei (Taiwan, China), she met Yang Jingquoc, a man eight years older than her and who met all the standards she wanted for a husband.
The marriage was the first turning point, when she gave up studying, hoping that marriage would help her quickly achieve her dream life.
However, economic events came, causing Van Nhan's expectations to disappear.She has a child and thinks that what she wants is also what her son wants: a prosperous life, a perfect educational environment.Choosing a good school for children is not simple with current economic conditions.
An opportunity arose by chance, her husband's boss organized a birthday party for her son and a friendship between the two boys, leading to her rich parents offering to pay for her son's tuition at a luxurious private school.Van Nhan and her daughter entered the splendid upper class world.
However, the deeper she went, the more Van Nhan realized the darkness behind her glory, that she had accidentally fallen into a net with her son that someone else had spread.This was the biggest turning point of her life.Will she find peace or pay the price for her ambition?
Van Nhan's story is set in a modern context of Taiwan (China), quite close to Vietnam, where parents strive to give their children the best opportunities, ready to sacrifice so that they can step into the world of the upper class.Therefore, the book " York-class children" is " contemporary" and "global" in the process of becoming parents.
