Perfume Dreams : Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
by
Andrew Lam
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1597140201
ISBN-13
9781597140201
Publisher
Heyday Books
Imprint
Heyday Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 16th, 2012
Print length
160 Pages
Product Classification:
Autobiography: generalMemoirsMedia, information & communication industries
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A noted journalist and NPR commentator presents a collection of essays that reflect his lifelong struggle for identity as a Vietnamese national living abroad and what the Vietnam War means to Vietnamese people living in exile as they long for a homeland that no longer exists for them. Original.
In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general, came to California on the eve of the fall of Saigon to communist forces. He traded his Vietnamese name for a more American one and immersed himself in the allure of the American dream: something not clearly defined for him or his family. Reflecting on the meanings of the Vietnam War to the Vietnamese people themselves—particularly to those in exile—Lam picks with searing honesty at the roots of his doubleness and his parents’ longing for a homeland that no longer exists.
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