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A Novel
by Camilla Gibb
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by Elaine Castillo
Published Apr 2019
Read ReviewsWith exuberance, grit, and sly tenderness, here is a family saga; an origin story; a romance; a narrative of two nations and the people who leave one home to grasp at another.
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 Bo Caldwell
Published Oct 2011
Read ReviewsInspired by the lives of the author's maternal grandparents - City of Tranquil Light is a tender and elegiac portrait of a young marriage set against the backdrop of the shifting face of a beautiful but torn nation.
by Karl Marlantes
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsA big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran.
by Sam Meekings
Published Dec 2010
Read ReviewsSam Meekings's remarkable debut novel showcases his luminous, poetic writing, as well as insights that belong to a writer twice his age. Part love story and part historical narrative, Under Fishbone Clouds carries the weight and beauty of a lifetime's achievement.
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 Tom Bissell
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsOpening with a gripping account of the chaotic and brutal last month of the war, The Father of All Things is Tom Bissells powerful reckoning with the Vietnam War and its impact on his father, his country, and Vietnam itself.
by Amy Tan
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsA provocative novel from the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's Daughter.
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.
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