16 who lived in Vietnam during the colonial period. The narrator recalled those days when she met a Chinese man with whom she later had a love affair. Recollecting the past enables her not only to reminisce about the first love but also to reconsider... and protagonist, and adds a sense of the past to the narrative. Incidents and spatio-temporal dimensions in the novel correspond with some details in the autobiography of the French author who spent her youth in Vietnam during the colonial times.

France is the country being proud of patriotism due to its long history of over a thousand years. The country also used to be the colonial power in the prosperous time of the Industrial Revolution. Paris, a famous capital of France, is considered