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Memories of a Pure Spring

Memories of a Pure Spring
  • Author(s): Duong Thu Huong
  • 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...

Miracle in the Cave

Miracle in the Cave
  • Author(s): Liam Cochrane
  • Location(s): Northern Thailand
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2018

Featuring never-before-reported details and exclusive interviews with the boys and their coach, the inspiring true story of how twelve members of the Wild Boar Academy Football Club and their coach survived nine days in a labyrinthine cave in Northern...

Miss Bangkok: Memoirs of a Thai Prostitute

Miss Bangkok: Memoirs of a Thai Prostitute
  • Author(s): Bua Boonmee
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

A rivetting read about the bar girl scene, the unhappiness, and desperation that drives young women to prostitution in Thailand.

Mist on the Jungle

Mist on the Jungle
  • Author(s): William Peskett
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

A lascivious businessman who prefers lady-boys to ladies, a depressed captain who threatens to sink his own ferry, a woman who eats more than food, and a Thai widow finding her late husband’s roots in Crete—these are just some...

Mole Creek

Mole Creek
  • Author(s): James Dunbar
  • 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...

Moments Of Nil

Moments Of Nil
  • Author(s): Flora Tavu
  • Location(s): Brunei
  • Genre(s): Poetry, Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1998-2012

‘The content of this collection is written in the span of a decade and half, 1998 – 2012; the time when I lapse frequently into moments of “nil” Nil means nothing . . . zero . . . zilch....

Monsoon

Monsoon
  • Author(s): Di Morrissey
  • 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...

Moon Bear

Moon Bear
  • Author(s): Gill Lewis
  • 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...

Mother’s Beloved

Mother’s Beloved
  • Author(s): Outhine Bounyavong
  • 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....

Music of the Ghosts

Music of the Ghosts
  • Author(s): Vaddey Ratner
  • 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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