Le Colonial

Author(s): Kien Nguyen

Location(s): Vietnam

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 1770s

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Voyaging to 1774 Annam, the exotic south China region that came to be known as Vietnam, three missionaries find their dreams of colonial glory dissolving in their discoveries of the area’s sophisticated culture and violent instability.

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