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A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
- Location(s): Cambodia, Indochina, Laos
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1950s
This book is set in French Indo-China as the Viet Minh are embarking on the guerrilla war against their colonial oppressors. Lewis travels around the area and recounts his experiences in a tender, insighful and well written way.
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
“A Vietnamese Brothers Grimm tale! A little bit of creepy to read while curled up with on the couch. A 24hr read. Well translated to English.” – Reedsy Discovery. ◆◆◆ Spirited Away meets Coraline in the Suburbs of Hanoi,...
- Location(s): New England, New York City (NYC), Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000's
This luminous debut novel follows a young woman from her childhood in Vietnam to her life as an immigrant in the United States – and her necessary return to her homeland. As a child, isolated from the world in...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Philadelphia, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s onwards
May 1998: Mimi Traung and her baby daughter Ngan wait restlessly at the gates of Philadelphia airport. There is still a day’s travelling left before they would land back home on Vietnamese soil. While they prepare to board, the...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
As the fall of Saigon begins in 1975, two lovers make their way through the streets, desperately trying to catch one of the last planes out. Helen Adams, a photojournalist, must leave behind a war she has become addicted...
- Location(s): Vietnam, Coronado Island
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s/1970s
It would be the journey of a lifetime . . . ‘Women can be heroes, too’. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances “Frankie” McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California’s idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered...
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1970s
For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital. Soon...
- Location(s): Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
‘For the first time in my life I felt that death was a possibility; a stupid, pointless, lonely death on the aptly named Mondulkiri Death Highway.’ The Ho Chi Minh Trail is one of the greatest feats of military...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
Most of us have experienced the Vietnam War through TV – fires, bombings, B-52s. This book vividly takes you to the Vietnamese villages of Vietnam. He describes the people involved in the conflict, mostly North & South Vietnamese and...
- Location(s): Cambodia, Phnom Penh
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Phnom Penh, Cambodia; the rainy season. When a French man, Hugo Quercy, is found brutally murdered, Commandant Serge Morel finds his holiday drawn to an abrupt halt. Quercy – dynamic, well-connected – was the magnetic head of a humanitarian...
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