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In search of love, absolution, or forgiveness, Charles Boatman leaves the Fraser Valley of British Columbia and returns mysteriously to Vietnam, the country where he fought twenty-nine years earlier as a young, reluctant soldier. But his new encounters seem irreconcilable with his memories.
When he disappears, his daughter Ada, and her brother, Jon, travel to Vietnam, to the streets of Danang and beyond, to search for him. Their quest takes them...
When he disappears, his daughter Ada, and her brother, Jon, travel to Vietnam, to the streets of Danang and beyond, to search for him. Their quest takes them...
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Spanning over fifty years, the fates of three women will lock together in an exhilarating series of nested narratives. Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds the three women together. Written with wit, ambition, and playfulness, this novel takes us from sweaty nightclubs to ramshackle zoos, colonial mansions to ex-pat flats, sizzling back-alley street carts to the noisy seats of motorbikes.
4) Monsoon
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"Kit, a British Vietnamese man, returns to Saigon for the first time in over 30 years, after fleeing during the Vietnam-American War"--From www.imdb.com.
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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...
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...
10) A grain of rice
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Thirteen-year-old Yen and her family have survived a war, famine and persecution. When a powerful flood ruins their village in rural Vietnam, matters only get worse. With the help of neighbors and family, they decide to take the ultimate risk on a chance for a better life.
11) Em
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Through the linked destinies of a number of characters, the novel takes its inspiration from historical events, including Operation Babylift, which evacuated thousands of biracial orphans from Saigon in April 1975, and the impressive growth of the nail salon industry, dominated by Vietnamese expatriates all over the world. The author focuses on a wide range of topics from the rubber plantations of Indochina to the massacre at My Lai.
12) Vi
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Cette histoire est celle du petit prince de la rue, la mienne. C'est également celle de gars et de filles qui ont laissé la mort ou la vie choisir à leur place.
Si je peux me raconter maintenant, c'est que je me suis libéré de moi-même, Insha Allah, que je ne suis plus esclave de ma rage. Je suis moi, fier d'être moi, et surtout j'ai réussi à suivre mon destin et ma passion en restant moi. Et ça, crois-moi, c'est tout un exploit.
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Alexis and Austen met on a Saturday night. Not in a bar, but instead in the emergency room where Alexis sutured a bullet wound in Austen's arm. Six months later, on the brink of falling in love, they travel to Vietnam on a bicycling tour so that Austen can show her his passion for cycling and so that he can pay his respects to the place where his father and uncle fought in the war. But as Alexis sips white wine and waits at the hotel for Austen to...
17) Vi
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Vi is the youngest of four children and the only girl, Vi was given a name that meant "precious, tiny one," destined to be cosseted and protected, the family's little treasure. Daughter of an enterprising mother and a wealthy and spoiled father who never had to grow up, the Vietnam war tears their family asunder. While Vi and many of her family members escape, her father stays behind, and her family must fend for themselves in Canada. While her mother...
18) Without remorse
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"An elite Navy SEAL, goes on a path to avenge his wife's murder only to find himself inside of a larger conspiracy"--www.imdb.com.
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"The multigenerational tale of the Tráãan family, set against the backdrop of the Viẹt Nam War. Tráãan Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Nội, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hãáo Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that will tear not...
20) The requin
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"A couple on a romantic getaway find themselves stranded at sea when a tropical storm sweeps away their villa. In order to survive, they are forced to fight the elements, while sharks circle below."--www.imdb.com.
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