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The Endless Field is a story about an 18-year-old girl and her family who raise ducks along the Mekong River. Told from the young woman’s point of view, the novel depicts poverty, family disorganization, violence, and love in a poetic style. Author Nguyen Ngoc Tu goes beyond a geographic observation of the Mekong, which forms the background of her novel, to focus on the reality of life in the Mekong Delta. Drawing readers into the story that unfolds on the endless field around the river, the novel has established a solid foothold as one of the most representative literary works published after the Viet Nam War. It received the Viet Nam Writers' Association award for fiction in 2006, and ASEAN’s most prestigious literary award, the Southeast Asian Writers Award, in 2008.