Posts Tagged with ‘Vietnam’
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Autumn Landscape, Hồ Xuân Hương, early 19th Century, Vietnam
12 Dec 2012Begining to think about a trip to South East Asia, including 12 days in Vietnam, I turned to a friend…
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The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh, Vietnam
11 Dec 2012Bao Ninh’s convention shattering novel of war, The Sorrow of War, (1991/1994) opens at war’s end. Kien is in the…
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Girl By the Road at Night: Misery Writ Small
01 Dec 2012Girl By the Road at Night (2010) by David Rabe, a highly praised playwright and author of several other novels,…
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Novel Without A Name: of Vietnam, A Man, A Country and A War
30 Nov 2012Beginning to prepare for a February trip to South East Asia I do what I always do — read. What…
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The Deer Hunter — Re-Seeing in 2012
16 Mar 2012Seeing Michael Cimino‘s The Deer Hunter 30 plus years after it made such an impression in 1978 as one of the…
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The Owl and the Sparrow — A Film from Vietnam
21 Apr 2011There may be no films we watch with more trepidation than those of little girls in dire circumstances. Little boys,…
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Buffalo Boy — A Film of Vietnamese Herders
11 Apr 2011The incredible, beautiful green of trees, grasses and rice against the blue rivers, blue skies and white clouds at the…
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Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
28 Jan 2011I’ve been reading — actually, listening to– Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War for a week, during commute times,…
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Alternatives to Amazon
07 Dec 2010The Google e-bookstore is finally open. Now, instead of going only to Amazon, or only to Barnes and Noble you can…