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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

Vietnam

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  The Lover by Marguerite Duras

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  A passionate and intense love story set in 1930s Saigon against a backdrop of the last days of French rule. A rich Chinese boy and a poor French girl fall in love to the horror of both of their families. This superbly-written, erotic novel was the winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1984.

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  The Quiet American by Graham Greene

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  Powerful and surprising novel about a love triangle between a beautiful Vietnamese girl, a cynical Englishman and an American idealist on the eve of the Vietnam War. Highly recommended.

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  The Dragon Prince: Stories & Legends from Vietnam by Thich Nhat Hanh

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  Thich Nhat Hanh's retelling of traditional stories and legends is the perfect introduction to Vietnamese mythology and culture.

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  Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

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  One of the greatest Vietnam novels ever written, great, sprawling and multi-charactered, it is something of a war-time Middlemarch. Beginning in 1963 with a chapter covering each of the next 20 years, CIA operative Skip has been sent on a mission to the Philippinnes and then on to North Vietnam by his uncle the increasingly psychotic 'Colonel'.

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  The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh

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  A brilliant novel which tells the story of Kien, an unfeasibly lucky North Vietnamese soldier, and the haunting destruction of his innocence as he becomes embroiled in this hideous war.