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  • Palawan Story

    by Caroline Vu ...
    Under the cover of darkness, Kim, a young girl, is put by her mother on a crowded fishing boat to escape Vietnam. The derelict boat drifts for two weeks on the South China Sea before reaching Palawan, a refugee camp in the Philippines. There, an American immigration officer mistakes Kim for a sponsored orphan with the same name and sends her to America. In the US, Kim tells her unsuspecting ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Catinat Boulevard

    by Caroline Vu ...
    Series Book 211 - Essential Prose Series
    Beginning in Saigon during the Vietnam War and ending in present day New York, Catinat Boulevard tells the story of two friends Mai and Mai Ly. While Mai flirts with American GIs in rowdy bars along Catinat Boulevard, Mai Ly joins the communist resistance in the jungle. The story also follows Nat, Mai's half Vietnamese-half African-American son abandoned in a Saigon orphanage. ... Read more

    $12.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • That Summer in Provincetown

    by Caroline Vu ...
    Series Book 119 - Essential Prose Series
    This story follows three generations of a Vietnamese family as they struggle through major events of the 20th century. From the War of Independence against the French colonial power to the Vietnam War, the novel depicts a family's resilience in the face of tragedy, as told through the voice of a young girl attempting to understand family scandals within an historical context. At the novel's core ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Ru

    Kanata Classics Edition

    by Kim Thúy ...
    Series series Kanata Classics
    Part of the inaugural Kanata Classics list, with a new introduction by Sharon Bala, Ru is a lullaby for Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland.Ru. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow--of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy's Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters. In ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse

    A Memoir

    by Vinh Nguyen ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERFinalist for the Toronto Books AwardsFinalist for the Governor General's Award for Non-FictionFinalist for the Hilary Weston-Writers' Trust Prize for Non-FictionAn inventive memoir about one family’s escape from Vietnam and the father’s mysterious disappearance along the way. This book is an intricate exploration of a searching mind, shedding light on the psyche of... ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Over the Moat

    Love Among the Ruins of Imperial Vietnam

    by James Sullivan ...
    "Cultures clash, but love conquers, with some fascinating twists and plenty of intimate details." — Kirkus ReviewsJames Sullivan's Over the Moat details his travels in Vietnam to bicycle from Saigon to Hanoi. He has just finished graduate school and has an assignment to write a magazine story about a country that is still subject to a U.S. trade embargo. But in Hue, the old imperial capital of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Elevator in Sài Gòn

    by Thu?n ...
    Translated by Nguy?n An Lý ...
    From the acclaimed author of Chinatown comes a personal and political journey through Hanoi, Sài Gòn, Paris, Pyongyang, and Seoul. Elevator in Sài Gòn is part detective story, part historical romance, part postcolonial ghost story, and a biting satire of life in a communist state.A Vietnamese woman living in Paris travels back to Sài Gòn for her estranged mother's funeral. Her brother had recently ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Three Funerals for My Father

    Love, Loss and Escape from Vietnam

    by Jolie Phuong Hoang ...
    Shortlisted for the 2022 Hamilton Literary AwardsWhat would you risk to save your children?Jolie Phuong Hoang grew up as one of ten children, part of a loving, prosperous Vietnamese family. All that changed after the communists took over in 1975. Identified as a potential “bad element,” the family lived in constant fear of being sent to the dreaded new economic zone.Desperate to ensure the family ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Other Moons

    Vietnamese Short Stories of the American War and Its Aftermath

    In this anthology, Vietnamese writers describe their experience of what they call the American War and its lasting legacy through the lens of their own vital artistic visions. A North Vietnamese soldier forms a bond with an abandoned puppy. Cousins find their lives upended by the revelation that their fathers fought on opposite sides of the war. Two lonely veterans in Hanoi meet years after the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Bamboo Among The Oaks

    Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans

    Edited by Mai Neng Moua ...
    Of an estimated twelve million ethnic Hmong in the world, more than 160,000 live in the United States today, most of them refugees of the Vietnam War and the civil war in Laos. Their numbers make them one of the largest recent immigrant groups in our nation. Today, significant Hmong populations can be found in California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Michigan, and Colorado, and St. Paul ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Disappeared

    by Kim Echlin ...
    Haunting, vivid, elegiac, The Disappeared is an unforgettable consideration of language, justice, and memory, at once a battle cry and a piercing lament, for truth, for love.Anne Greves is a motherless Canadian girl and her lover, Serey, a gentle Cambodian rebel and exiled musician. One day he leaves their Montreal flat to seek out his family in the aftermath of Pol Pot's savage revolution. After ... Read more

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  • Vi

    Translated by Sheila Fischman ...
    by Kim Thúy ...
    The perfect complement to the exquisitely wrought novels Ru and Mãn, Canada Reads winner Kim Thúy returns with Vi, exploring the lives, loves and struggles of Vietnamese refugees as they reinvent themselves in new lands.The daughter of an enterprising mother and a wealthy, spoiled father who never had to grow up, Vi was the youngest of their four children and the only girl. They gave her a name ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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