Lão Hạc

Nam Cao

Short storiesabout 20 minutes of listening

A poor old farmer lives alone with his dog Vàng, the keepsake of a son who left to work on a plantation. Told by the schoolteacher next door, the story follows the hungry days and the way the old man keeps his dignity to the end.

Source: Wikisource tiếng Việt. Public domain (Vietnam, Art. 27 IP Law); transcription from Wikisource, site text CC BY-SA 4.0