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- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): early 2000s
Global traveller Lydia Laube had out her map again. Where could she go next? Her eye fell on one place she hadn’t visited – Laos, the Land of a Million Elephants. After enduring a close call with Thai immigration...
Love Songs from a Shallow Grave
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1970s
Septuagenarian Siri Paibun is, the only coroner in Laos and is investigating the death of three Laotian women, who have duelling wounds.
- Location(s): Cambodia, Vermont
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Biography
- Era(s): Late 1970s onwards
A sequel to the best-selling memoir First They Killed My Father, written by a spokesperson for the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, describes her family’s experiences of relocation from war-torn Cambodia and assimilation in Vermont, a transition marked by...
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lydia’s quiet expat life in Cambodia is dramatically turned upside down by the sudden arrival of Song, a young & vulnerable Vietnamese girl, and the flattering romantic attentions of a handsome, dashing local man. Just as she settles into...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Post Vietnam War
Memories of a Pure Spring is a mesmerizing portrait of modern Vietnam and its people who struggle to survive under the complexities of a post-war regime. During the Vietnam war, Hung, a well-known composer, becomes enchanted by the voice...
- Location(s): Tasmania, Australia, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Espionage, Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Present Day and Wartime Vietnam (Early 1970s)
In the tiny Tasmanian town of Mole Creek, retired Australian cop and Vietnam veteran Pete McAuslan has retreated to his fishing cabin to write his memoirs. In Sydney, his grandson, journalist and trashy true crime author Xander, learns that...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Sandy Donaldson is coming to the end of stint of work in Vietnam, and invites her friend Anna to join her on a holiday. Both already have links to the country, one has Father who is a Vietnam Veteran...
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 20th century
Both torn from their homes in Laos, a boy and a moon bear cub form a deep bond in this “moving and memorable” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) tale of impossible odds and resilient hope, based on true and tragic...
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Outhine Bounyavong is one of the most prominent contemporary writers in Laos. His stories are animated with Laotian virtues of simplicity, compassion, respect for age, and other village mores; they breathe with a gentleness that is fresh and distinctive....
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Vietnam War onward
Harrowing but a clear reminder of US intervention in SE Asia politics. Follows a family escaping after Pol Pot becomes the leader in Cambodia.
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