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LAOS, VIETNAM & CAMBODIA
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Fire in the Lake
• Frances FitzGerald
HISTORY •
2002 •
PAPER
• 496 PAGES
A classic historical, political and cultural portrait of the Vietnam War, seen through the eyes of the Vietnamese. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, FitzGerald, a staff writer at the New Yorker and a reporter in Vietnam, presents a vivid image of a revolution and a clear-sighted case for why the U.S offensive was doomed from the start.. It's still essential reading 30 years later.
(VNM12, $18.99) |
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A History of Laos
• Martin Stuart-Fox
HISTORY •
1997 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
A comprehensive, scholarly history of the country, focusing on the modern period and emergence of Laos as a modern nation state. With chapters on the early kingdoms and French Laos.
(LAO06, $43.00) |
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The Road of Lost Innocence
• Somaly Mam
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2009 •
PAPER
• 205 PAGES
Mam's remarkable story of triumph over years of sexual slavery in Southeast Asia gives voice to a human-rights disaster of global proportions. Written in exquisite, spare, unflinching prose, The Road of Lost Innocence recounts the experiences of her early life and tells the story of her awakening as an activist and her harrowing and brave fight against the powerful and corrupt forces that steal the lives of these girls. She has orchestrated raids on brothels and rescued sex workers, some as young as five and six; she has built shelters, started schools and founded an organization that has so far saved more than four thousand women and children in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Laos.
(CBD65, $15.00) |
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Understanding Vietnam
• Neil Jamieson
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1995 •
PAPER
• 428 PAGES
Jamieson's ambitious primer addresses politics, social history, village life, structural renewal, literature and the arts, illuminating the Vietnamese worldview with insight and depth. It does just what the title promises -- it illuminates the Vietnamese and their worldview.
(VNM01, $29.95) |
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