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Title: WHERE THE ASHES ARE
THE ODYSSEY OF A VIETNAMESE FAMILY
By: Nguyen Qui Duc
Format: Paperback

List price: £17.50


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ISBN 10: 0803226985
ISBN 13: 9780803226982
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Pub. date: 1 December, 2009
Pages: 280
Synopsis: In 1968 Nguyen Qui Duc was nine years old, his father was a high-ranking civil servant in the South Vietnamese government, and his mother was a school principal. Then the Viet Cong launched their Tet offensive, and the Nguyen family's comfortable life was destroyed. The author's father was taken prisoner and marched up the Ho Chi Minh Trail. North Vietnam's highest-ranking civilian prisoner, he eventually spent twelve years in captivity, composing poems in his head to maintain his sanity. Nguyen himself escaped from Saigon as North Vietnamese tanks approached in 1975. He came of age as an American teenager, going to school dances and working at a Roy Rogers restaurant, yet yearning for the homeland and parents he had to leave behind. The author's mother stayed in Vietnam to look after her mentally ill daughter. She endured poverty and "reeducation" until her husband was freed and the Nguyens could reunite. Intertwining these three stories, Where the Ashes Are shows us the Vietnam War through a child's eyes, privation after a Communist takeover, and the struggle of new immigrants.The author, who returned to Vietnam as an American reporter, provides a detailed portrait of the nation as it opened to the West in the early 1990s. Where the Ashes Are closes with Nguyen's thoughts on being pulled between his adopted country and his homeland.
Illustrations: 1 map
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Returns: Returnable
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