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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

by Robert Olen Butler

Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics across the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Now Grove Press is proud to reissue this contemporary classic by one of America's most important living writers, in a new edition of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain that includes two subsequently... (more)

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler finds it hard to stand and watch.

Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir

by Bich Minh Nguyen

Winner of the PEN/Jerard Award. A vivid, funny, and viscerally powerful memoir about childhood, assimilation, food, and growing up in the 1980s As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Bich Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity. In the pre-PC era Midwest, where the devoutly Christian blond-haired, blue-eyed Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme, Nguyen's... (more)

Duck for Turkey Day

by Jacqueline Jules

Vietnam: The War Nobody Won (Headline Series)

Vietnam: The War Nobody Won (Headline Series)

by Stanley Karnow

Provides a comprehensive look at both sides of the Vietnam War through a collection of personal tales and delves into the political and military events in the United States and elsewhere that originally caused the war and the brought it to an end. Reprint. TV tie-in."

Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

by Andrew X. Pham

Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award A Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the Year Catfish and Mandala is the story of an American odyssey—a solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam—made by a young Vietnamese-American man in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and his forsaken fatherland. ... (more)

A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath (Vintage)

A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath (Vintage)

by Nh? Ta?ng Tr??ng

When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as one of the major figures in the "fight for liberation" -- and one of the most determined adversaries of the United States. He became the Vietcong's Minister of Justice, but at the end of the war he fled the country in disillusionment and despair. He now lives in exile in Paris, the highest level... (more)

Pagodas, Gods and Spirits of Vietnam

by Ann Helen Unger

This book reveals through text and illustrations the extraordinarily varied and prolific religions of Vietnam. Despite decades of government discouragement of all religion, the deeply anchored faiths of the Vietnamese people have continued to flourish, and indeed to increase their hold on believers. Everywhere between the Red River in the north and the Mekong Delta in the south, sacrificial offerings are heaped... (more)

The Tale of Kieu: A bilingual edition of Nguyen Du`s Truyen Kieu

The Tale of Kieu: A bilingual edition of Nguyen Du`s Truyen Kieu

by Du Nguye??n

Text: English, Vietnamese

The Sorrow of War

by Ba?o Ninh

A novel of the Vietnam War is written from the perspective of the North Vietnamese, profiles human characters who are wrenched by the same pain and fear as their enemies, and follows the hero's ten-year separation from his loved ones. Reprint. NYT.

Three Wishes (Indigo: Sensuous Love Stories)

Three Wishes (Indigo: Sensuous Love Stories)

by Seressia Glass

The Prison Diary of Ho Chi Minh. Trans. By Aileen Palmer. Intro. By Harrison E. SalisburyHo Chi Minh

The Prison Diary of Ho Chi Minh. Trans. By Aileen Palmer. Intro. By Harrison E. Salisbury

by Ho Chi Minh

Gangster We Are All Looking for

by Thi Diem Thu?y Le?

This acclaimed novel reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through the knowing eyes of a child finding her place and voice in a new country. In 1978 six refugees—a girl, her father, and four “uncles”—are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child’s imagination, the world is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of... (more)

Vietnamese: Lonely Planet Phrasebook

by Ben Handicott, Lonely Planet Phrasebooks

Conical hats, lacquerware bowls and flag T-shirts are fine - you can compare them with everyone else's. Or get talking and bring home souvenirs that no one can match. Open this phrasebook and make this trip your own. Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical and social words and phrases in more than 120 languages. Chat with the locals and discover their culture - a guaranteed way to enrich your... (more)

Spring Essence

by Xua?n H??ng Ho??

HÃ´ XuÃ¢n Huong-whose name translates as "Spring Essence"-is one of the most important and popular poets in Vietnam. A concubine, she became renowned for her poetic skills, writing subtly risquÃ© poems which used double entendre and sexual innuendo as a vehicle for social, religious, and political commentary. "The Unwed Mother" Because I was too easy, this happened. Can you guess the hollow in my heart? Fate... (more)

Collier's Encyclopedia Copyrighted 1967 with Bibliography and Index (Collier's Encyclopedia Copyrighted 1967 with Bibliography and Index)

You will own the Collier's Encyclopedia Copyrighted 1967 with Bibliography and Index. This set of encyclopedias are full of great information from the perspective of the 60's. Buy it now!!

The Boat

by Nam Le

A stunningly inventive, deeply moving fiction debut: stories that take us from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York City to Iowa City; from a tiny fishing village in Australia to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea, in a masterly display of literary virtuosity and feeling. In the magnificent opening story, “Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice,” a young... (more)

Secrets of the Red Lantern: Stories and Vietnamese Recipes from the Heart

Secrets of the Red Lantern: Stories and Vietnamese Recipes from the Heart

by Pauline Nguyen

"In my family, food is our language. Food enables us to communicate the things we find so hard to say." --Pauline Nguyen Overflowing with sumptuous but simply prepared dishes that have been passed down through generations of the Nguyen family, Secrets of the Red Lantern is part Vietnamese cookbook and part family memoir. More than 275 traditional Vietnamese recipes are presented alongside a visual narrative of... (more)

Than Dong Dat Viet 1

by Le Linh

I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir (P.S.)

I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir (P.S.)

by Lac Su

As a young child, Lac Su made a harrowing escape from the Communists in Vietnam. With a price on his father's head, Lac, with his family, was forced to immigrate in 1979 to seedy West Los Angeles where squalid living conditions and a cultural fabric that refused to thread them in effectively squashed their American Dream. Lac's search for love and acceptance amid poverty—not to mention the psychological turmoil... (more)

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