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Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora Original edition
Andrew Lam
Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora Original edition
Andrew Lam
''When Americans say Vietnam, they don't mean Vietnam.''
In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general, came to California on the eve of the fall of Saigon to communist forces. He traded his Vietnamese name for a more American one and immersed himself in the allure of the American dream: something not clearly defined for him or his family.
Reflecting on the meanings of the Vietnam War to the Vietnamese people themselves--particularly to those in exile--Lam picks with searing honesty at the roots of his doubleness and his parents' longing for a homeland that no longer exists.
Winner of the 2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Award
A Book Sense Notable Book December 2005
160 pages
Medien | Bücher Taschenbuch (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken) |
Erscheinungsdatum | 16. August 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9781597140201 |
Verlag | Heyday Books |
Seitenanzahl | 160 |
Maße | 139 × 215 × 12 mm · 226 g |
Sprache | Englisch |
Mitwirkende | Richard Rodriguez |
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