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A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam
by Tom Bissell
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by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Published Jan 2018
Read ReviewsViet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer was one of the most widely and highly praised novels of 2015. Nguyen's next fiction book, The Refugees, is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.
by David Freed
Published Aug 2015
Read ReviewsThree American ex-POWs are accused of murdering their former prison guard, and Cordell Logan - pilot, aspiring Buddhist, and former military assassin - is sent to Vietnam to investigate.
by Michael Chabon
Published Sep 2013
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The Beauty of Humanity Movement
by Camilla Gibb
Published Feb 2012
Read ReviewsThis deeply observed novel of contemporary Vietnam interweaves stories of a venerable soup seller, a young Vietnamese American curator, and an enterprising tour guide in ways that will mark all of their lives forever.
After the Fire, a Still Small Voice
by Evie Wyld
Published Nov 2010
Read ReviewsSet in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid.
by Andrew X. Pham
Published Jun 2009
Read ReviewsA sons searing memoir of his Vietnamese fathers experiences over the course of three wars.
by Denis Johnson
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsThis story of Skip Sands - spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong - and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel.
by J.R. Moehringer
Published Aug 2006
Read ReviewsIn the grand tradition of landmark memoirs - a classic American story of self-invention and escape, of the fierce love between a single mother and an only son, it's also a moving portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and an unforgettable depiction of how men remain, at heart, lost boys.
by David Maraniss
Published Oct 2004
Read ReviewsMoving between the campus at Madison and the jungles of Vietnam, with side trips to Hanoi and Washington, the tale unfolds with a magisterial sweep that recaptures the war and its era, filled with moral ambiguity and moral conviction.
by Nelson DeMille
Published Apr 2003
Read ReviewsThirty years later, an American army lieutenant's death in Vietnam is still shrouded in mystery; the only evidence is a recently discovered letter written by an enemy soldier describing an act of shocking violence. Brenner's assignment: return to Vietnam and find the witness....
by James Webb
Published Aug 2002
Read ReviewsA page-turning mystery, shot through with adventure and intrigue that captures the Vietnam of past and present --- its beauty and squalor, its politics and people.
by Kien Nguyen
Published Apr 2002
Read ReviewsThe biography of an Amerasian child in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon. A wonderful book - highly recommended. "He writes with a voice of innocence that takes us into the heart and spirit of one person's undeserved and tragic childhood." USA Today.
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