The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood - Brossura

Nguyen, Kein

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0316284610 ISBN 13: 9780316284615

Casa editrice: Back Bay Books, 2002

Riassunto

Saigon fell to the Viet Cong on April 30, 1975. Kien Nguyen was there. He watched the last U.S. Army helicopter leave without him, without his brother, without his mother, without his grandparents. Left to a nightmarish existence in a violated and decimated country, Kien was more at risk than most because of his odd blond hair and his light eyes - because he was Amerasian. He was the most 'unwanted'.

THE UNWANTED is the only memoir by an Amerasian who stayed behind in Vietnam and who is now living in America. Told with stark and poetic brilliance, this is a story of survival, a story of hope - a moving and personal record of a tumultuous and important piece of history.

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Descrizione del libro:

In the tradition of Angela's Ashes, this graphic and harrowing memoir tells the story of a young boy's life in South Vietnam after the fall of Saigon and his escape to America ten years later.

L'autore:

Kien Nguyen was born in South Vietnam in 1967 to a Vietnamese mother and an American G.I. father. He left Vietnam in 1985 and after spending time at a refugee camp in the Phillippines, arrived in America. He is now a dentist and lives in New York City.

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• Editore: Back Bay Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0316284610
• ISBN 13: 9780316284615
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 369