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Häftad, Engelska, 2009
216 kr
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Engelska, 2008222 kr
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From Andrew X. Pham, the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala, a son’s searing memoir of his Vietnamese father’s experiences over the course of three wars.The Philadelphia Inquirer hailed Andrew Pham’s debut, Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam, for evoking “the full sadness of the human condition . . . marveling at spiritual resilience amid irreconcilable facts.” The New York Times Book Review called it, simply, “remarkable.” Now, in The Eaves of Heaven, Pham gives voice to his father’s unique experience in an unforgettable story of war and remembrance. Once wealthy landowners, Thong Van Pham’s family was shattered by the tumultuous events of the twentieth century: the festering French occupation of Indochina, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the Vietnam War.Told in dazzling chapters that alternate between events in the past and those closer to the present, The Eaves of Heaven brilliantly re-creates the trials of everyday life in Vietnam as endured by one man, from the fall of Hanoi and the collapse of French colonialism to the frenzied evacuation of Saigon. Pham offers a rare portal into a lost world as he chronicles Thong Van Pham’s heartbreaks, triumphs, and bizarre reversals of fortune, whether as a South Vietnamese soldier pinned down by enemy fire, a prisoner of the North Vietnamese under brutal interrogation, or a refugee desperately trying to escape Vietnam after the last American helicopter has abandoned Saigon. This is the story of a man caught in the maelstrom of twentieth-century politics, a gripping memoir told with the urgency of a wartime dispatch by a writer of surpassing talent.From the Hardcover edition.
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
247 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
303 kr
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The peak of the hot season, 1942: The wars in Europe and Asia and the Japanese occupation have upset the uneasy balance of French Indochina. In the Vietnamese fishing village of Phan Thiet, Tuyet ekes out a living at a small storefront with her aunt Coi, her cousin Ha and her two-year-old daughter, Anh. She can hardly remember her luxurious life in the city of Saigon, which she left just two years ago.The day Tuyet meets Japanese major Yamazaki Takeshi is inauspicious and stifling, with no relief from the sand-stirring wind. But to her surprise, she feels not fear or wariness but a strange kinship. Tuyet is guarded, knowing how the townspeople might whisper, yet is drawn to Takeshi’s warmth all the same. A wounded veteran with a good heart, Takeshi grows to resent the Empire for what it has taken—and the promises it has failed to keep. As the Viet Minh begin to battle the French and Takeshi risks his life for the Resistance, Tuyet and her family are drawn into the conflict, with devastating consequences.A lushly panoramic novel, by turns gritty and profoundly moving, Twilight Territory is at once a war story and a love story that offers a fascinating perspective on Vietnam’s struggles to break free of its French colonial past. At its heart is a woman’s struggle for independence and her country’s liberation.
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Ungerska, 2025141 kr
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Bekoszont 1942 forro, sarkanycsont-szeles forro evszaka. Europaban es Azsiaban dul a haboru. A japanok megszalljak Francia Indokinat, felboritva a terseg hatalmi egyensulyat. A tengerparti Phan Thiet halaszok lakta falujaban Jamazaki Takesi ornagy megpillantja a kislanyat egyedul nevelo fiatalasszonyt, Tuyetet, es szerelem szovodik a megszallo katona es a vietnami no kozott. Dacara a helyiek megbotrankozasanak, a hadi helyzet valtozasanak, az ellenallasi mozgalmak kegyetlen dzsungelharcanak, a szemelyes es kicsinyes bosszuhadjaratoknak, a szerelmukert es csaladjuk boldogsagaert az eletuket is szamtalanszor kockaztatva, kitartoan kuzdenek.Andrew X. Pham regenyeben mindvegig harcok dulnak: a varosokban, a rizsfoldeken, a hegyekben - es a szivekben. A megindito es tragikus szerelmi tortenet hattereben pedig egyszerre gyonyorkodhetunk es borzonghatunk a gyarmati uralom alol szabadulo Vietnam lenyugozo tortenelmi panoramajaban.Andrew X. Pham vietnami szarmazasu amerikai iro 1967-ben szuletett Phan Thietben. A csaladjaval a vietnami haborut kovetoen menekultek Malajziaba, majd onnan tovabb az Egyesult Allamokba. Pham a kaliforniai UCLA egyetemen szerzett repulogep- es urmernoki diplomat. Batyja ongyilkossaga hatasara tert vissza szulofoldjere es valt szepirova, elbeszelesei temajaul Vietnamot valasztva. Catfish and Mandala cimu elso konyve szamos dijat hozott szamara, a The New York Times 1999-ben az ev egyik legjelentosebb konyvenek nevezte. Azota minden egyes kotete Az ev tiz legjobb konyve listak szereploje. Kaliforniai otthonuk mellett lakhelyeul a Mekong deltajat valasztotta, egy vizre epitett, fabol keszult bungaloban el felesegevel, kutyaikkal es macskaikkal. Amikor nem ir, akkor kerekparturakat vezet, sikloernyozik, mindemellett lelkes szakacs, borasz es sorfozo.