Blogs in October 2014

The Tapestries 25th October 2014

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...

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Saigon 25th October 2014

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....

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Le Colonial 25th October 2014

Voyaging to 1774 Annam, the exotic south China region that came to be known as Vietnam, three missionaries find their dreams of colonial glory dissolving in their discoveries of the area’s sophisticated culture and violent instability.

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Fishing for Tigers 25th October 2014

Six years ago, Mischa Reese left her abusive husband and suffocating life in California and reinvented herself in steamy, chaotic Hanoi. In Vietnam, she finds satisfying work and enjoys a life of relative luxury and personal freedom. Thirty-five and...

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The Frangipani Hotel 1st April 2014

A beautiful young woman appears fully dressed in an overflowing bathtub at the Frangipani Hotel in Hanoi. A jaded teenage girl in Houston befriends an older Vietnamese gentleman she discovers naked behind a dumpster. A trucker in Saigon is...

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