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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 |
AU$23.95 |
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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 |
AU$28.95 |
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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 |
AU$19.95 |
| 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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Two Cakes Fit for a King. Folktales from Vietnam.
CAM, NGUYEN NGUYET AND DANA SACHS (COMPILED BY). Stock ID: 71052 Black and white line illustrations by Bui Hoai Mai, ix + 113pp, paperback. Stories, passed from generation to generation, reflecting fundamental Vietnamese cultural values. Suitable for secondary. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 71052) ... 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 |
AU$33.95 |