wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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Memorial Days: Vietnam Stories, 1973-2022
ISBN: 9781682831793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A retrospective collection of one veteran's fifty years of Vietnam short stories.
A retrospective collection of one veteran's fifty years of Vietnam short stories.
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104,32 |
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Wandering Souls: Journeys with the Dead and the Living in Vietnam
ISBN: 9781568587424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. On March 19, 1969, First Lieutenant Homer R. Steedly, Jr., shot and killed a North Vietnamese soldier, Dam, when they met on a jungle trail. Steedly took a diary--filled with beautiful line drawings--from the body of the dead soldier, which he subsequently sent to his mother for safekeeping. Thirty-five years later, Steedly rediscovers the forgotten dairy and begins to confront his suppressed memories of the war that defined his life, deciding to return to Viet Nam and meet the family of the man he killed to seek their forgiveness. Fellow veteran and award-winning author Wayne Karlin...
On March 19, 1969, First Lieutenant Homer R. Steedly, Jr., shot and killed a North Vietnamese soldier, Dam, when they met on a jungle trail. Steedly t...
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85,66 |
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A Wolf by the Ears
ISBN: 9781625345035 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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101,08 |
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An Insignificant Family
ISBN: 9781931896481 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Beginning in Vietnam shortly after the end of the American war and ending sometime in the 21st century, this 8th volume of Curbstone's Voices from Vietnam Series follows the life of Nguyen Thi My Tiep, a woman writer and a revolutionary, whose girlhood is spent as a guerrilla fighter, and whose post-war life becomes a search for personal liberation and individual love. Tiep's struggles are seamlessly connected to the changes her country is going through, as Da Ngan's daring and controversial novel draws us into the life of a woman who insists on leading a meaningful and honest life--as a...
Beginning in Vietnam shortly after the end of the American war and ending sometime in the 21st century, this 8th volume of Curbstone's Voices from Vie...
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78,23 |
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Apocalypse Hotel
ISBN: 9780896728035 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Three violent deaths occur within days among a group of young nouveaux-riche beachgoers of Hanoi but neither the victims nor the circumstances are as they seem. Is fate responsible? Or a woman of extreme beauty and mystery?When Danang Publishing House risked bringing out Ho Anh Thai s controversial novel Coi ngu?i rung chuong t?n th? (The Apocalypse Bell Tolls in the Human World) in 2002 after numerous others had refused it, Vietnam was a nation still struggling to find its identity decades after being torn apart by war. Ho Anh Thai s previous stories and novels had already seized the...
Three violent deaths occur within days among a group of young nouveaux-riche beachgoers of Hanoi but neither the victims nor the circumstances are as ...
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97,19 |
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The Stars, the Earth, the River: Short Stories by Le Minh Khue
ISBN: 9781880684474 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection of 14 stories--each a harrowing sketch of the Vietnam War and its aftermath-- offers American readers a glimpse offamiliar territory, but from an unfamiliar perspective. Often writing from a young woman's point of view, Le Minh Khue, a war veteran who served in the Youth Volunteers Brigade, uses simple, understated prose to describe numbing horrors:
"There were three of us. Three girls. We lived in a cavern at the foot of a strategic hill ... Our job was to sit there. Whenever a bomb exploded, we had to run up, figure out how much earth was needed to fill the hold, count... This collection of 14 stories--each a harrowing sketch of the Vietnam War and its aftermath-- offers American readers a glimpse offamiliar territory, ...
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67,79 |
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In Whose Eyes: The Memoir of a Vietnamese Filmmaker in War and Peace
ISBN: 9781625342522 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tran Van Thuy is a celebrated Vietnamese filmmaker of more than twenty award-winning documentaries. A cameraman for the People's Army of Vietnam during the Vietnam War, he went on to achieve international fame as the director of films that address the human costs of the war and its aftermath. Thuy's memoir, when published in Vietnam in 2013, immediately sold out. In this translation, English-language readers are now able to learn in rich detail about the life and work of this preeminent artist. Written in a gentle and charming style, the memoir is filled with reflections on war,... Tran Van Thuy is a celebrated Vietnamese filmmaker of more than twenty award-winning documentaries. A cameraman for the People's Army of Vietnam du... |
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196,91 |