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Uyen Nicole Duong

Forfatter af Daughters of the River Huong

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Daughters of the River Huong (2011) 68 eksemplarer
Postcards from Nam (2011) 38 eksemplarer
Mimi And Her Mirror (2011) 7 eksemplarer

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Postcards from Nam, by Uyen Nicole Duong is a novel that begins with the evacuation of Saigon and ends with the author posing the question: can we ever all be united again? Mimi is a young Vietnamese woman living in the U.S. practicing law. She ritually receives postcards from Nam (a real person she grew up with in South Vietnam).. Mimi sets out to find out the fate of Nam but has difficulty, even years later, getting people to tell the truth of the evacuation and the fate of the boat people. This book read like a memoir for the first half, but fell apart in the second half when the answers to Mimi's questions were never answered. The last 3-5 pages seem like they don't even belong in the book. 114 pages 2 1/2 stars… (mere)
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Tess_W | 3 andre anmeldelser | May 11, 2018 |
Recommended by a friend. Fascinating saga with Vietnam history as the backdrop.
 
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beebeereads | 1 anden anmeldelse | Feb 12, 2017 |
This started out well but took a strange twist about 100 pages before the end and I started to loose the thread of the plot. It was interesting and I did learn a lot about Vietnam but ultimately it was rather unsatisfying. I see it is part of a trilogy so perhaps this explains some of the holes I found in the plot lines but not all of them.
 
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amyem58 | 1 anden anmeldelse | Mar 31, 2016 |
This is a novella about Mimi, a successful former refuge from Vietnam, and her quest to understand the person who is sending her postcards from Thailand. Her investigation begins when she discovers he was a young neighbor in their village in Vietnam and then the investigation widens. This was, unfortunately, a book which had a great deal of unrealized potential. I hope the author continues to grow as a writer, but this book missed the mark.
 
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whymaggiemay | 3 andre anmeldelser | May 17, 2013 |

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Værker
3
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113
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#173,161
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½ 3.5
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6
ISBN
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