Blogs in May 2020

The Lover 18th May 2020

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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Inside Out & Back Again 17th May 2020

For all the ten years of her life, Hà has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her friends close by. But now the Vietnam War has reached her...

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Tunnel Vision 28th September 2018

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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Saigon Dark 26th September 2017

Good and bad. Life and death. Some choices aren’t black and white A grief-stricken young mother switches her dead child for a Vietnamese street kid, then spends the next decade living a lie. She remarries and starts to feel...

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The Quiet American 1st January 1970

‘The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American’ Ian McEwan Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious ‘Third Force’....

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