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| Soleil au ventre. Roman.
HOUGRON, JEAN. Stock ID: 95125 379pp, dustjacket slightly torn with a little minor wear, good copy. Text in French. Novel set in Indochina. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 95125) ... more |
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The Book of Salt. *Indent Title
TRUONG, MONIQUE. Stock ID: 77458 272pp, paperback. "The Vietnamese cook to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas reveals his story in this novel that takes the reader on a strange journey from Indo China to Paris in the 1930s." Publisher's description. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 77458) ... more |
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The Kim Van Kieu of Nguyen Du (1765-1820).
NGUYEN DU. Stock ID: 78801 Translated by Vladislav Zhukov. xii + 168pp, paperback. "Nguyen Du was a Vietnamese official displaced in a dynastic shift and sent into provincial exile in the service of his new overlord. The epic poem, Kim Vān Kieu, was his most notable work during this period. This saga of a rich, sophisticated and multifaceted culture - derivative in its special way from the classical traditions of China - launches a romantic girl of good family, Kieu, into an epic of dissolution, intrigues and refined cruelty. As one picaresque episode follows another, it becomes clear that the saga of Kieu's wanderings and travails is also Nguyen Du's lament of the overthrow of the ruling house of his youth and the loss of his former state. While dedicated to its portrayal of bygone Sino-Vietnamese times, the incisive intellectual, moral and social commentary of the Kim Van Kieu still speaks to the reader across these cultural and historical distances." Publisher's description. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 78801) ... more |
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| Ears of the Jungle.
BOULLE, PIERRE. Stock ID: 62833 224pp, neat signature of a prior owner front free endpaper, dustjacket chipped with loss, now protected. Novel set in Vietnam during World War II. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 62833) ... more |
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| Watermark. Vietnamese Poetry and Prose.
TRAN, BARBARA, TRUONG, MONIQUE T.D., LUU, TRUONG KHOI Stock ID: 126898 Asian American Writers' Workshop. 227pp, excellent copy in paperback. Here, the most innovative contemporary Vietnamese-American writers explore thematic and stylistic territory previously overlooked in other collections, which have traditionally focused on the all-too-expected theme of war. "Watermark" lifts all constraints, leaving the works to reset the boundaries for themselves. And they do-using poetry, fiction, and experimental forms to venture further into the fringes of the Vietnamese-American psyche. There they find a dead dog and hockey puck, a frozen (literally) grandmother, a hairpiece, Gertrude Stein, and a stick of spearmint gum. Here fiction and poetry reflect and refract on adolescence, sexuality, language, death, and distance. The result is a sly, haunting, wry look at life anywhere. Author note: Barbara Tran was the recipient of a Cornell Woolrich scholarship at Columbia University, where she earned her M.F.A. Monique T. D. Truong is a writer and attorney in New York City. Luu Truong Khoi graduated from Harvard College and the Boston University Creative Writing Program. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 126898) ... more |
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| A Moral Obligation.
CANAWAY, W.H. Stock ID: 2758 191pp, edges lightly foxed, small mark front free endpaper, dustjacket soiled. Novel set in Vietnam after Second World War. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 2758) ... more |
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| Melanges Sur Nguyen Du. Reunis a l'occasion du bi-centenaire de sa naissance (1765).
DURAND, MAURICE. Stock ID: 20307 315pp, largely unopened, small scratch on upper wrapper, very good in wrappers. Small quarto. Nguyen Du - most famous Vietnamese poet of all time - wrote the Vietnamese national epic poem the Kim van Kieu. This work contains mostly articles about Nguyen Du or about Vietnamese society during his time. French text. BD31 Cotter. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 20307) ... more |
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Killer Karma. A Father Ananda Mystery.
WILGUS, NICK. Stock ID: 126525 223pp, paperback. For the past seven months, every full moon night has brought eerie sightings of ghostly heads bobbing on the surface of the sea. An excited throng of people are gathering each month to witness the grisly spectacle at Wat Phloi, a tiny monastery on the coast of Chanthaburi province in central Thailand. Father Ananda, an urban monk and former police officer, is summoned from his Bangkok temple to investigate. His search for an explanation is complicated and severely threatened by the escalating polarization within the community around the destruction of the coastal mangroves by fishing trawlers. As always, Jak, the former temple boy, now a novice, accompanies Father Ananda on his intrepid investigations in this third episode of the Father Ananada mystery series. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 126525) ... more |
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Memories of a Pure Spring.
DUONG, THU HUONG. Stock ID: 128690 340pp, paperback. 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 and beauty of a young peasant girl named Suong. He invites her to join his troupe; she becomes his wife and his star performer. But after the war, Hung loses his job, setting off a series of events that drive him and Suong into a destructive spiral. One of Vietnam's most popular writers, Duong Thu Huong draws on her own experiences to describe life at the battlefront, the conditions of a re-education camp, and the texture and rhythm, scents and sounds, of a provincial Vietnamese city. Most of all, she tells a haunting, universal story of failed love. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 128690) ... more |
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No Man's Land.
HUONG, DUONG THU. Stock ID: 128691 450pp, paperback. From Vietnam's most popular writer and famous dissident comes a mesmerizing novel about a tragic love triangle between characters whose destinies have been irrevocably altered by the absurdity of war. No Man's Land is set in a hamlet in the countryside of central Vietnam immediately following the end of the war in 1975, where a young woman, happily married to a successful farmer, comes home one day to find a throng of villagers assembled around her gate. She learns that her first husband, who reportedly died as a martyr and hero many years back, is in fact alive and has returned to claim her. Faced with immense pressure from the community and Party authorities, she dutifully agrees to leave her second husband and their son to live in a squalid shack with the veteran. This tragic twist of fate gives the novel a powerful narrative drive that makes it Huong's most accomplished work to date. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 128691) ... more |
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| Kieu. Tradiut Du Vietnamien. Deuxieme Edition.
NGUYEN DU. Stock ID: 61513 Illustrations, 236pp, notes, last leaves and lower cover creased upper corner, price stamp lower free endpaper, extremities worn, paperback with dustjacket, dustjacket worn and marked, contents sound. Text in French. Large octavo. French text. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 61513) ... more |
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| The Dragon Prince. Stories and Legends from Vietnam.
HANH, THICH NHAT. Stock ID: 116678 Black and white illustrations, 179pp, paperback. Cooperation and awareness of others are just two of the themes explored in these remarkable stories and legends from Vietnam, as retold by renowned Buddhist monk and scholar Thich Nhat Hanh. A fantastical blend of fiction and nonfiction, these tales are narrated with gorgeous prose and are accompanied by sumptuous black and white illustrations. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 116678) ... more |
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Paradise of the Blind.
DUONG THU HUONG. Stock ID: 78711 Translated from the Vietnamese by Phan Huy Duong and Nina McPherson. 270pp, glossary, paperback. Paradise of the Blind is an exquisite portrait of three Vietnamese women struggling to survive in a society where subservience to men is expected and Communist corruption crushes every dream. Through the eyes of Hang, a young woman in her twenties who has grown up amidst the slums and intermittent beauty of Hanoi, we come to know the tragedy of her family as land reform rips apart their village. When her uncle Chinh's political loyalties replace family devotion, Hang is torn between her mother's appalling self-sacrifice and the bitterness of her aunt who can avenge but not forgive. Only by freeing herself from the past will Hang be able to find dignity - - and a future. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 78711) ... more |
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The Man from Saigon.
MARTI LEIMBACH. Stock ID: 128981 364pp, paperback. "After all the stories of battles and deaths, of torture and loss and hatred, someone should tell this one, too, about a man who moved among them, who seemed to love them." 1967. Vietnam. Susan Gifford is one of the first female correspondents on assignment in Saigon, dedicated to her job and passionately in love with an American TV reporter. Son is a Vietnamese photographer anxious to get his work into the American press. Together they cover every aspect of the war from combat missions to the workings of field hospitals. Then one November morning, narrowly escaping death during an ambush, they find themselves the prisoners of three Vietcong soldiers who have been separated from their unit. Now, under constant threat from American air strikes, helpless in the hands of the enemy, they face the daily hardships of the jungle, living always with the threat of being killed. But Son turns out to have a history that Susan would never have guessed, and which will one day separate her from her American lover. Held under terrifyingly harsh conditions it becomes clear just how profound and important their relationship has become to both of them. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 128981) ... more |
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