Thuận
1) Chinatown
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New Directions paperbook volume 1535
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
160 pages ; 21 cm.
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"An abandoned package is discovered in the Paris Metro: the subway workers suspect it's a terrorist bomb. A Vietnamese woman sitting nearby, her son asleep on her shoulder, waits and begins to reflect on her life, from her constrained childhood in communist Hanoi, to a long period of study in Leningrad during the Gorbachev period, and finally to the Parisian suburbs where she now teaches English. Through everything runs her passion for Thụy, the...
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En plein Saigon, un homme et une femme se retrouvent dans un htel pendant 44 heures. De quoi revivre les événements du Quatrième mois...
Un htel 4 étoiles de la rue Dong Khoi, ex-Catinat. Deux amants d'origine vietnamienne, venus de Paris pour revisiter leur passé. Durant 44 heures de sexe et d'amour se profile une longue histoire, celle de Saïgon d'hier et d'aujourd'hui.
Il y a aussi Tong, Ly-An, Diêu Tu, autant de personnages entre le Vietnam...
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Inspired by the tales of four grandmothers-Thuan Le Elston's and her husband's-Rendezvous at the Altar: From Vietnam to Virginia traces Anne's southern upbringing to her Mad Men-like married life; Kim's family as they survive French colonialism and the Vietnam War; Mary's transformations through the Great Depression and two marriages; and Ty's migration from Hanoi businesswoman to Arizona matriarch. Through a mother's journal to her children and the...
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Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan is one of the most inspiring voices of the twentieth century, a true modern-day hero. During a time of political unrest in Vietnam, he was arrested for his faith and spent the next thirteen years in prison. There he endured harsh treatment and deplorable conditions. Nine of those thirteen years he spent in solitary confinement.
During those long years of isolation and imprisonment, instead of giving in to...