Sing for Your Father, Su Phan
Stella Pevsner and Fay Tang
Recalls the events in a North Vietnamese village that forever changed the lives of the youngest daughter of a prosperous trader and her family.
Read Time: ~2 hr
A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family
by Peter Dimock (1998)
About this book
Hundreds of novels have explored the war in Vietnam. This is the first to explore the world of the architects of that war, and it cuts terribly close to home. Dimock brilliantly exposes the pained heart of a single family and offers a vision of what their way of life still costs us all. His book raises with startling freshness ancient yet urgent questions about relations between image, word, and act.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreA Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family Lead Character
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