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- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1920s to 1975
A searing memoir by the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala offers a portrait of his father’s experiences over the course of three wars–the French occupation of Indochina, the World War II Japanese invasion, and the Vietnam War–as he...
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Suspense
- Era(s): 1970's & 1990's
After a horrific accident shatters her world and leaves her an amputee, American attorney Emily Mclean moves to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to work with landmine survivors. She hopes to reinvent herself in this new land, leaving behind her sense...
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s
The author is living and studying in Cambodia with his kmer partner and daughter when he and two colleagues are captured by the Khmer Rouge. They are taken deep into the jungle, held on suspicion that they are CIA....
The GILDED TREASON – An Alex Hunt Adventure Thriller
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Adventure, Thriller
- Era(s): Current
ALEX HUNT and SAM QUINN are back for another Action-packed Archaeological Adventure! This time, in the Cambodian jungle! Finding the golden urn was supposed to be easy. Nothing the skilled Alex Hunt and Sam Quinn haven’t done before. But...
- Location(s): Ha Giang
- Genre(s): Thriller, Political
- Era(s): Modenn
The Girl in the Picture: The Remarkable Story of Vietnam’s Most Famous Casualty
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 1970s
Kim Phuc was nine years old in 1972. Hers is the photo that shot around the world when she ran towards the photographer, severely burned by napalm. Denise Chong describes Kim’s experience and recovery in this astonishing biography and...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Kitty, a nurse, decides to fly out to join the efforts in the Vietnam war. She tends the wounded and gets to know the local populace in a way that the soldiers never can. She is bequeathed an object...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Berkeley, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Isabel Allende’s powerful tale of one boy’s escape from the slums of Los Angeles. This magnificent novel tells the story of Gregory Reeves, the son of Charles, an itinerant preacher. As a boy, Gregory accepts the endless journeying and...
- Location(s): Cambodia, Laos, Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 2000s
Ethan Willis is a confused 18 year old who struggles with the uncertainties of life and has embarked on a quest to find his elder sister, Charlotte, who disappeared whilst travelling in South East Asia. Ethan admires and idolises...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): pre WW2
Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras’s childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of...
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