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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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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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| 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 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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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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| 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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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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The Lotus Eaters.
SOLI, TATJANA. Stock ID: 137032 389 pages, paperback. '[A] tremendously evocative debut, a love story set in the hallucinatory atmosphere of war, described in translucent, fever-dream prose.' Janice Y. K. Lee, author of the bestselling THE PIANO TEACHER 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 to and a devastated country she loves. Linh, her lover, must grapple with his own conflicting loyalties to the woman from whom he can't bear to be parted, and his country. Betrayal and self-sacrifice follows, echoing the pattern of their relationship over the war-torn years, beginning in the splendour of Angkor Wat, with jaded, cynical, larger-than-life war correspondent Sam Darrow, Helen's greatest love and fiercest competitor, driven by demons she can only hope to vanquish. Spurred on by the moral imperative of documenting the horror of war, of getting the truth out to an international audience, and the immense personal cost this carries, Sam and Helen's passionate and all-consuming love is tested to the limit. This mesmerising novel carries resonance across contemporary wars with questions of love and heart-breaking betrayal interwoven with the conflict. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 137032) ... more |
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Highways to a War.
KOCH, C.J. Stock ID: 137158 'A quite outstanding novel about the Indochina war, the best I have read since Graham Greene's THE QUIET AMERICAN.' Richard West, LITERARY REVIEW When Mike Langford, a war photographer with a reputation for unusual risk-taking, disappears inside Cambodia, he becomes a mythic figure in the minds of his friends. The search for him which is at the heart of this novel explores the personal highways that led him to war, and to his ultimate fate. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 137158) ... more |
AU$19.95 |