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- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This book focuses on Qui and Tam, the granddaughter, who is dying of leukemia, and the story of Mai and Minh, two children under the dubious “protection” of an opium-fiend named Loc. Iris picks up where her father left...
- Location(s): Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
What if you woke up in a strange place and didn’t know who you were? A woman reins consciousness in a Thai hospital unaware of how she got there or who she is. The doctor names her Kai, the...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
An epic saga of twentieth-century Vietnam hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “the War and Peace of our age” Joseph Sherman first visits Saigon, the capital of French colonial Cochin-China, in 1925 on a hunting expedition with his father, a US senator....
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
An intimate, stirring portrait of a country at war and a family’s battle to survive With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Having taken to the lifestyle of a middle-aged civilian, the last thing Paul Brenner wanted to do was return to work for the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division, the agency that thanked him for years of life-risking service by forcing...
- Location(s): Cambodia, Phnom Penh
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
2004 German Critics Award for Crime Fiction and Winner of 2007 Premier Special Director Book Award Semana Negra, Spain In the early 1990s, at the end of the devastating civil war UN peacekeeping forces try to keep the lid...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
From internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War. Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon....
- Location(s): Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
From Hanoi to Saigon, a tale of one woman’s search for a better life – and a thriller that strikes to the merciless heart of post-civil war Vietnam. In the chaos and corruption of 1980s’ Vietnam, three seemingly unconnected...
The Beauty of Humanity Movement
- Location(s): Hanoi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s onwards
“They say that the history of Vietnam can be found in a bowl of pho, and from his handcart- kitchen, Old Man Hu’ng makes the best in all Hanoi. But a striking young Vietnamese-American woman – Maggie Ly –...
A Deadly Cambodian Crime Spree
- Location(s): Phnom Penh
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
Inspector Singh is in Cambodia – wishing he wasn’t. He’s been sent as an observer to the international war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, the latest effort by his superiors to ensure that he is anywhere except in Singapore....
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