pickWe follow Kein whose job in the Vietnam war was to search for dead bodies in the jungle. In the years after the war ended, he would drink to excess and write down the things that kept him up at night. This is his story. It's jumbled and mostly out of chronological order which can be confusing however the last few pages address the issues.
This book is full of horrors. Pages full of broken dreams and broken spirits. Lost lives, lost souls.
“You must always remember that you are more than your circumstances.”
I would use this book if it aligned with the curriculum and the topic for that week
so-soThis was interesting to me because I‘ve never seen anything from the perspective of a Vietnamese girls POV about the Vietnam war
pickWhat a lovely, sad, well-told story. Anh and her two younger brothers are sent away from Vietnam with the rest of the family to follow later. Yet only Anh and her brothers make it and from there they move from refugee camp to camp, before finally being resettled in 1980s Britain. I loved every bit of it; the compassionate storytelling, the clean, clear writing and the simply told and unflinching look at the refugee experience.
This collection of 16th-century Vietnamese tales is in UNESCO's list of representative works. They were written in Chinese (the language of scholars in #Vietnam at the time) by a retired civil servant. They are full of ghosts, gods, monsters & ghouls, and always have a moral. Despite the annotations, some of the cultural background went over my head but the stories have universal appeal - & they're perfect for spooky season.
#SchoolSpirit #paper An oldie but a goodie. Why we need good journalists who go beyond the obvious, beyond the propaganda.
