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15 produkter
Wandering Souls
Journeys with the Dead and the Living in Viet Nam
Av Wayne Karlin
Häftad, 2013
218 kr
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On March 19, 1969, First Lieutenant Homer R. Steedly, Jr., shot and killed a North Vietnamese soldier, Dam, when they met on a jungle trail. Steedly took a diary,filled with beautiful line drawings,from the body of the dead soldier, which he subsequently sent to his mother for safekeeping. …
In Whose Eyes?
The Memoir of a Vietnamese Filmmaker in War and Peace
Av Tran Van Thuy, Le Thanh Dung m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
654 kr
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Tran Van Thuy is a celebrated Vietnamese filmmaker of more than twenty award-winning documentaries. A cameraman for the People's Army of Vietnam during the Vietnam War, he went on to achieve international fame as the director of films that address the human costs of the war and its aftermath.Thuy's …
Wolf by the Ears
Av Wayne Karlin
Häftad, 2020
385 kr
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We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. -- Thomas JeffersonDuring the War of 1812, thousands of enslaved people from plantations across the Tidewater rallied to the British side, turning against an American republic that had barred them from the promises of …
Memorial Days
Vietnam Stories, 1973-2022
Av Wayne Karlin
Häftad, 2023
333 kr
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The conflict in Vietnam has been rewritten and reframed into many corners of American life and has long shadowed contemporary political science and foreign policy. The war and its aftermath have engendered award-winning films and books. It has held up a mirror to the twentieth century and to the …
Stars, the Earth, the River
Short Stories by Le Minh Khue
Häftad, 1997
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
218 kr
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This collection of 14 stories - each a harrowing sketch of the Vietnam War and its aftermath - offers American readers a glimpse offamiliar territory, but from an unfamiliar perspective. Often writing from a young woman's point of view, Le Minh Khue, a war veteran who served in the Youth Volunteers …
In Whose Eyes?
The Memoir of a Vietnamese Filmmaker in War and Peace
Av Tran Van Thuy, Le Thanh Dung m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1175 kr
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Tran Van Thuy is a celebrated Vietnamese filmmaker of more than twenty award-winning documentaries. A cameraman for the People's Army of Vietnam during the Vietnam War, he went on to achieve international fame as the director of films that address the human costs of the war and its aftermath.Thuy's …
Other Side of Heaven
Post-War Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers
Av Wayne Karlin, Wayne Karlin m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
250 kr
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These stories represent the ""second wave"" of fiction - works about the aftermath of the Vietnam conflict as it moved into both countries, touching and forever changing not only the veterans, but also their families and their societies. Contributors include John Edgar Wideman, Larry Brown, Robert …
Rumors and Stones
A Journey
Av Wayne Karlin
Inbunden, 1996
246 kr
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""In the summer of 1993 I began a self-imposed journey into the blurred space between memory, story, and reality when I rented a car from Warsaw Avis and drove to the village in Poland in which my mother had lived before immigrating to the United States."" So begins Wayne Karlin's Rumors and …
Behind the Red Mist
Short Fiction by Ho Anh Thai
Häftad, 1998
250 kr
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Behind the Red Mist gives us for the first time in English a wide range of stories from the most important writer of the post-war generation in Vietnam. The characters range from a party official who turns into a goat while watching porno movies, to an Indian who carries his mother's bones in his …
Prisoners
Av Wayne Karlin
Häftad, 2000
234 kr
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Central to Wayne Karlin's novel Prisoners is the story of Kiet, a runaway teenage orphan from Vietnam who is seeking her Black father and whose flight impinges upon the lives of several other characters, many of them Vietnam War veterans. The drama of the interlinking stories illuminates the …
Wished for Country
Av Wayne Karlin
Häftad, 2002
234 kr
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The Wished For Country is set during the founding period of the Maryland colony, during the mid-17th century. The novel focuses on the entwined stories of James Hallam, a carpenter and indentured servant; Ezekiel, an African slave brought to Maryland from Barbados; and Tawzin, a Piscataway Indian, …
Love After War
Av Wayne Karlin
Häftad, 2003
250 kr
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How does the literature of a society that has endured decades of war reflect the echoes of that violence to bodies and spirits while depicting the ordinary lives of men and women who are searching, as all people do, for meaning, for happiness, for normalcy, for love? Love After War presents the …
Marble Mountain
Av Wayne Karlin
Häftad, 2009
234 kr
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Marble Mountain reads like a detective story as the protagonist, Kiet Hallam, an adopted daughter of African American and Vietnamese descent, searches for her true identity. Set in both America and Vietnam, and written from the perspective of both Americans and Vietnamese affected by the war, …
