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- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th century
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott’s The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
1952, French Indochina. Since her mother’s death, eighteen-year-old half-French, half-Vietnamese Nicole has been living in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Sylvie. When Sylvie is handed control of the family silk business, Nicole is given an abandoned silk...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
Ever since it exploded into Vietnam’s cultural life two centuries ago, The Song of Kieu has been one of that nation’s most beloved and defining central myths. It recounts the tragic fate of the beautiful singer and poet Kieu,...
The sound of the buffalo bells: Stories from Laos
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Amongst temples and banks, rice fields and jungles the reader meets forest-eaters and world-travelling buffaloes, a frog who wants to swallow the moon, a man who sells luck and another who sells air, and a young boy who wants...
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Twelve-year-old Nakri’s beloved home in Cambodia is shattered when the nation’s capital is overrun by government rebels. Her family is forced to flee, and she and her siblings end up in a children’s labor camp, separated from everything they’ve...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
In THE TAPESTRIES, based loosely on the life of the author’s grandfather, who, in the early 1900s, was a professional embroiderer in the court of the last king of Vietnam-Kien Nguyen has reimagined his grandfather’s amazing story to weave...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
It is the summer of 1945, the last and very dangerous days of World War II. The Office of Strategic Services is in close, cooperative contact with Ho Chi Minh and the fighting cadre of the Viet Minh, working...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
It is 1951, and Jean-Luc Guéry has arrived in Indochina to investigate the murder of his brother, Olivier, whose body was found floating in a tributary of the Saigon River. As an avid reader of detective fiction, Guéry is...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Genre(s): Crime, Humour
- Era(s): Present day
This is the second Danny Clay crime “caper” which takes the ex-Army engineer turned TV writer, and his Vietnamese sidekick Zan, to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) where a former army buddy has become embroiled in a property deal...
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