To Vietnam With Love

Author : Merav Shohet
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520976703
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silence and Sacrifice written by Merav Shohet and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do families remain close when turbulent forces threaten to tear them apart? In this groundbreaking book based on more than a decade of research set in Vietnam, Merav Shohet explores what happens across generations to families that survive imperialism, war, and massive political and economic upheaval. Placing personal sacrifice at the center of her story, Shohet recounts vivid experiences of conflict, love, and loss. In doing so, her work challenges the idea that sacrifice is merely a blood-filled religious ritual or patriotic act. Today, domestic sacrifices—made largely by women—precariously knot family members together by silencing suffering and naturalizing cross-cutting gender, age, class, and political hierarchies. In rethinking ordinary ethics, this intimate ethnography reveals how quotidian acts of sacrifice help family members forge a sense of continuity in the face of trauma and decades of dramatic change.

Author : Teejay LeCapois
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312092750
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Vietnam With Love written by Teejay LeCapois and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sylvain Toussaint and Cecilia "Cilia" Nguyen have been best friends for years. Growing up in the mostly white West Side of Brockton, Massachusetts, their respective clans were the only recent immigrant families on the block. Haitian-Americans and Vietnamese-Americans, living peacefully side by side. At least until their lives took drastically different turns. After high school Cecilia went to Massasoit Community College, and Sylvain went to the University of Virginia. Years later they reunite in Brockton, Massachusetts, and sparks fly between them. Can best friends find true love with each other ? Or are they carelessly messing up a lifelong friendship ?

Author : James Sullivan
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1466871946
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over the Moat written by James Sullivan and published by Picador. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1992, James Sullivan travels to Vietnam to bicycle from Saigon to Hanoi. He has just finished graduate school and has an assignment to write a magazine story about a country that is still subject to a U.S. trade embargo. But in Hue, the old imperial capital of Vietnam, the planned three-month bike trip takes a detour. Here, in a city spliced by the famed Perfume River and filled with French baroque villas, he finds himself bicycling over a moat to visit a beautiful shop girl who lives amid the ruins of the last imperial dynasty of Vietnam. She falls for him, but there's a catch. Several other suitors are vying for her hand, and one of them is an official with the city's police force. Over the Moat is the story of Sullivan's efforts to win Thuy's favor while immersing himself in Vietnamese culture, of kindly insinuating himself in Thuy's colorful and warm family, and of learning how to create a common language based on love and understanding.

Author : Kim Fay
Publisher : ThingsAsian Press
ISBN 13 : 9781934159040
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Vietnam with Love written by Kim Fay and published by ThingsAsian Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From endangered langurs on Cat Ba Island to sidecar journeys in the Central Highlands, discover the secrets of savvy expatriates, seasoned travelers, and inspired locals. With its unique insights into dining, shopping, sightseeing, and culture, this personal collection of essays is a one-of-a-kind guide for the passionate traveler.

Author : Jim Stockdale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780553253160
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Love and War written by Jim Stockdale and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vincent Lam
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307367916
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Headmaster's Wager written by Vincent Lam and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Giller Prize winner, internationally acclaimed, and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War. Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. He is also a bon vivant, a compulsive gambler and an incorrigible womanizer. He is well accustomed to bribing a forever-changing list of government officials in order to maintain the elite status of the Chen Academy. He is fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage, and quick to spot the business opportunities rife in a divided country. He devotedly ignores all news of the fighting that swirls around him, choosing instead to read the faces of his opponents at high-stakes mahjong tables. But when his only son gets in trouble with the Vietnamese authorities, Percival faces the limits of his connections and wealth and is forced to send him away. In the loneliness that follows, Percival finds solace in Jacqueline, a beautiful woman of mixed French and Vietnamese heritage, and Laing Jai, a son born to them on the eve of the Tet offensive. Percival's new-found happiness is precarious, and as the complexities of war encroach further and further into his world, he must confront the tragedy of all he has refused to see. Blessed with intriguingly flawed characters moving through a richly drawn historical and physical landscape, The Headmaster's Wager is a riveting story of love, betrayal and sacrifice.

Author : Wayne Karlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love After War written by Wayne Karlin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the literature of a society that has endured decades of war reflect the echoes of that violence to bodies and spirits while depicting the ordinary lives of men and women who are searching, as all people do, for meaning, for happiness, for normalcy, for love? Love After War presents the widest range to date of contemporary writers in Vietnam, men and women who have become part of that country's established canon, as well as young and up-coming writers who have come of age in modern Vietnam. Their stories, published in the most widely read literary journals, magazines and newspapers in Vietnam, and many translated here for the first time, reveal the relationships and concerns of everyday life, and the erosion and endurance of life in that country. Contributors to the anthology include Vu Boa, Nguyen Minh Chau, Ngo Thi Kim Cuc, Nguyen Phan Hach, Ma Van Khang, Nguyen Khai, Le Minh Khue, Nguyen Thi Minh Ngoc, Bao Ninh, Doan Le, Ho Anh Thai, Nguyen Huy Thiep, Nguyen Manh Tuan and others.

Author : Alex Woodard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1401948545
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For the Sender written by Alex Woodard and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A box with Love Letters From Vietnam etched on top holds letters written from a passionate yet deeply flawed soldier to his wife decades ago, but stays buried in a closet for years, until the Vietnam veteran is gunned down in the driveway of the home he rents for his mistress. As a way to work through her anger and sense of betrayal, his daughter, Jennifer, opens the box and sorts through the letters, answering four of them back in time to Vietnam . . . and then she writes to him in the heaven she hopes he has now found. After attending Alex Woodard's concert, Jennifer sends the singer-songwriter her package of letters, which launches Woodard on his own journey of exploring the dichotomy between dark and light as he imagines himself as Sergeant Fuller at war and begins to write songs sung from Fuller's heart. An album of songs included with the book propels this true story and features Woodard as Sergeant Fuller and Molly Jenson as Jennifer, singing songs based on the exchange of letters as a soundtrack that can hopefully lead to a final, redemptive father-daughter dance in Jennifer's heart.

Author : Kgcummings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781425991944
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Written Words written by Kgcummings and published by . This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Language of the Birds is a masterpiece of Eastern Turkish literature (now Uzbek), and was written by one of Central Asia's most prominent poets, Alisher Nava'i, shortly before his death in 1501. The story begins with the birds of the world realizing they are far from their king and so they begin their arduous journey with the assistance of the wise bird Hoopoe as their guide. Hoopoe listens to their complaints and excuses along the way and encourages them to seek true life even though the journey is sometimes painful. This epic poem in prose form contains many anecdotes and stories from the oral history of the Silk Road and Islam. Through this story, people are exhorted to rise above any excuse they might have in their spiritual pilgrimage. Alisher Nava'i (1441-1501) is renowned in Central Asia for his numerous writings and lasting influence in Uzbekistan as well as the contemporary Central Asian republics. In modern Uzbekistan, Nava'i is revered above all other poets and his presence is still found streets, museums, and even a province and city are name after him. His proverbs are found throughout Central Asia and he is considered the father of the Uzbek language. His words for peace and against oppression are as timely today as they were 5 centuries ago. Nava'i lived in Herat, Afghanistan. His writings, endowments, and his life example have had lasting influence in Central Asia. In The Language of the Birds, we are introduced to what Nava'i thought is important in life. It is a world of love that goes beyond the rational and is ready to endure anything for the beloved. This book is for anyone who values great historical literature, as well as those needing inspiration in his or her own pilgrimage in life.

Author : Bob Hope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Women I Love written by Bob Hope and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Hope, stalwart and determined entertainer of U.S. troops, on the five women he could take on each of his Vietnam trips. Love that Bob!