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  • The Last Travel

    Hmong exile stories

    by Maiv Lis ...
    This book recounts the journey of a Hmong family from their province in Laos to the Paris region at the end of the Vietnam War (1955-1975). ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Vi

    Translated by Sheila Fischman ...
    by Kim Thúy ...
    The perfect complement to the exquisitely wrought novels Ru and Mãn, Canada Reads winner Kim Thúy returns with Vi, exploring the lives, loves and struggles of Vietnamese refugees as they reinvent themselves in new lands.The daughter of an enterprising mother and a wealthy, spoiled father who never had to grow up, Vi was the youngest of their four children and the only girl. They gave her a name ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Lover

    An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984.Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • In the Eye of the Wild

    Translated by Sophie R. Lewis ...
    After enduring a vicious bear attack in the Russian Far East's Kamchatka Peninsula, a French anthropologist undergoes a physical and spiritual transformation that forces her to confront the tenuous distinction between animal and human.In the Eye of the Wild begins with an account of the French anthropologist Nastassja Martin’s near fatal run-in with a Kamchatka bear in the mountains of Siberia. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Zenith

    A Novel

    A major new novel from the most important Vietnamese author writing todayDuong Thu Huong has won acclaim for her exceptional lyricism and psychological acumen, as well as for her unflinching portraits of modern Vietnam and its culture and people. In this monumental new novel she offers an intimate, imagined account of the final months in the life of President Ho Chi Minh at an isolated mountaintop ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The World is Moving Around Me

    A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake

    Translated by David Homel ...
    On January 12, 2010, novelist Dany Laferrière had just ordered dinner at a Port-au-Prince restaurant with a friend when the earthquake struck. He survived; some three hundred thousand others did not. The quake caused widespread destruction and left over one million homeless.This moving and revelatory book is an eyewitness account of the quake and its aftermath. In a series of vignettes, Laferrière ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • She Weeps Each Time You're Born

    A Novel

    by Quan Barry ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    Radiant, lyrical, and deeply moving, this is the unforgettable story of one woman’s struggle to unearth the true history of Vietnam while also carving out a place for herself within it.Vietnam, 1972: under a full moon, on the banks of the Song Ma River, a baby girl is pulled out of her dead mother’s grave. This is Rabbit, who is born with the ability to speak with the dead. She will flee from her ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Monkey Bridge

    A Novel

    by Lan Cao ...
    Hailed by critics and writers as powerful, important fiction, Monkey Bridge charts the unmapped territory of the Vietnamese American experience in the aftermath of war.Like navigating a monkey bridge—a bridge, built of spindly bamboo, used by peasants for centuries—the narrative traverses perilously between worlds past and present, East and West, in telling two interlocking stories: one, the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Vietnam. Hanoi Old Quarter City Walks

    Fat Noodle, #2

    Series Book 2 - Fat Noodle
    DID YOU KNOW? THERE IS A SECRET TUNNEL IN A LOCAL BAR USED BY PATRIOTS...AND A SECRET CAFE HIDDEN AWAY INSIDE AN ANCIENT HOUSE FULL OF ANTIQUES.When you travel across the world to get to here and with a limited time frame, you want to experience the authentic Hanoi. Now you can.'Hanoi Old Quarter City Walks' guides you to where hidden treasures and cultural icons are. Just choose one of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fragrant Palm Leaves

    Journals, 1962-1966

    Best known for his Buddhist teachings, Thich Nhat Hanh has lived in exile from his native Vietnam since 1966. These remarkable early journals reveal not only an exquisite portrait of the Zen master as a young man, but the emergence of a great poet and literary voice of Vietnam. From his years as a student and teaching assistant at Princeton and Columbia, to his efforts to negotiate peace and a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Vietnam - Culture Smart!

    The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

    Series series Culture Smart!
    Don't just see the sights―get to know the people.Vietnam is one of Southeast Asia's most fascinating and alluring countries; its rich history, fragrant and flavorful cuisine, and offerings of fast-paced city life, sun-soaked coastline, and idyllic rural getaways are drawing travelers from around the globe once more.Since having emerged from two decades of war in 1975, the country has undergone a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My First Day

    A visually stunning story of resilience and determination by an award-winning new author-illustrator team, perfect for back to school.This is no ordinary first journey. The rainy season has come to the Mekong Delta, and An, a young Vietnamese boy, sets out alone in a wooden boat wearing a little backpack and armed only with a single oar. On the way, he is confronted by giant crested waves, heavy ... Read more

    $4.99 USD