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I Little Slave: A Prison Memoir from Communist Laos
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1981 - 1988
Raised in the hierarchical society of traditional Laos, Bounsang Khamkeo earned his doctorate in political science in France and returned home in 1973 to a country in political chaos in the wake of the Vietnam War. He worked for...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s
A personal journey throught the Vietnam war, a war no-one really wanted, facing an enemy in alien and inhospitable terrain. This the “the” book of the Vietnam war.
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contrmporary
Stories are timeless and some travel too well for comfort A writer traveling in Asia settles down in a remote guesthouse in the off season. He needs a cheap and quiet place to write a crime story based on...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Alabama
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): 1975
For all the ten years of her life, Hà has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her friends close by. But now the Vietnam War has reached her...
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Time immemorial
Here in one slim volume is a selection of the best-known and best-loved Lao folktales that have entertained the Lao people for generations. We meet the legendary trickster Xieng Mieng who matches his wits with merchants, monks, and kings....
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1968 - 1970
At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far...
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1975
Through the ups and downs of life, whom do you count on the most? Twelve-year-old Blong does not have much, but he has his older sister Ka-Ying. Now, their world is suddenly and forever changed. Homes are abandoned. People...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
This remarkable and bestselling novel from Thanhha Lai, author of the National Book Award-winning and Newbery Honor Book Inside Out & Back Again, follows a young girl as she learns the true meaning of family. This middle grade novel...
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
Lone Buffalo is a fictionalised account of the life of a man who was born in the wrong place at the wrong time – northeastern Laos in the autumn of 1969. With the Secret War building to its climax,...
Lone Buffalo: conquering adversity in Laos, the land the West forgot
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1969
Lone Buffalo is a fictionalised account of the life of a man who was born in the wrong place at the wrong time – northeastern Laos in the autumn of 1969. With the Secret War building to its climax,...
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