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Sacred Willow
Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family
Taschenbuch von Mai Elliott
Sprache: Englisch

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A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural poverty to become an influential landowner, and continuing to the present, Mai Elliott traces her family's journey through an era of tumultuous change. She tells us of childhood hours in her grandmother's silk shop, and of hiding while French troops torched her village, watching while blossoms torn by fire from the trees flutter "like hundreds of butterflies" overhead. She makes clear the agonizing choices that split Vietnamese families: her eldest sister left her staunchly anti-communist home to join the Viet Minh, and spent months sleeping in jungle camps with her infant son, fearing air raids by day and tigers by night. And she follows several family members through the last, desperate hours of the fall of Saigon-including one nephew who tried to escape by grabbing the skid of a departing American helicopter. Based on family papers, dozens of interviews, and a wealth of other research, this is not only a memorable family saga but a record of how the Vietnamese themselves have experienced their times.
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural poverty to become an influential landowner, and continuing to the present, Mai Elliott traces her family's journey through an era of tumultuous change. She tells us of childhood hours in her grandmother's silk shop, and of hiding while French troops torched her village, watching while blossoms torn by fire from the trees flutter "like hundreds of butterflies" overhead. She makes clear the agonizing choices that split Vietnamese families: her eldest sister left her staunchly anti-communist home to join the Viet Minh, and spent months sleeping in jungle camps with her infant son, fearing air raids by day and tigers by night. And she follows several family members through the last, desperate hours of the fall of Saigon-including one nephew who tried to escape by grabbing the skid of a departing American helicopter. Based on family papers, dozens of interviews, and a wealth of other research, this is not only a memorable family saga but a record of how the Vietnamese themselves have experienced their times.
Über den Autor
Mai Elliott was born and raised in Vietnam and attended Georgetown University on a scholarship. She lived in Vietnam again from 1963 to 1968 and worked for the Rand Corporation interviewing Viet Cong prisoners of war. She returned to the U.S. in 1968 and now lives in California.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • Acknowledgments

  • Maps

  • Family Tree

  • 1. A Burial in the Night

  • 2. Shut Gate and High Walls

  • 3. The Silk Merchant

  • 4. French Veneer, Confucian Soul

  • 5. Taxes, Floods, and Robbers

  • 6. The Third Month in the Year of the Famine

  • 7. The Head on the Roof

  • 8. Into the Resistance Zone

  • 9. Poison and Bribes

  • 10. The Fall of a Border Garrison

  • 11. Sifting Through the Rubble

  • 12. The New Mecca

  • 13. Just Cause

  • 14. Short Peace, Long War

  • 15. Flying Into the Unknown

  • 16. The Spoils of Victory

  • 17. The Hours of Gold and Jade

  • Epilogue: Across the Four Seas

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780190614515
ISBN-10: 019061451X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Elliott, Mai
Auflage: 2. Auflage
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Maße: 229 x 152 x 29 mm
Von/Mit: Mai Elliott
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2017
Gewicht: 0,792 kg
Artikel-ID: 121048081
Über den Autor
Mai Elliott was born and raised in Vietnam and attended Georgetown University on a scholarship. She lived in Vietnam again from 1963 to 1968 and worked for the Rand Corporation interviewing Viet Cong prisoners of war. She returned to the U.S. in 1968 and now lives in California.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • Acknowledgments

  • Maps

  • Family Tree

  • 1. A Burial in the Night

  • 2. Shut Gate and High Walls

  • 3. The Silk Merchant

  • 4. French Veneer, Confucian Soul

  • 5. Taxes, Floods, and Robbers

  • 6. The Third Month in the Year of the Famine

  • 7. The Head on the Roof

  • 8. Into the Resistance Zone

  • 9. Poison and Bribes

  • 10. The Fall of a Border Garrison

  • 11. Sifting Through the Rubble

  • 12. The New Mecca

  • 13. Just Cause

  • 14. Short Peace, Long War

  • 15. Flying Into the Unknown

  • 16. The Spoils of Victory

  • 17. The Hours of Gold and Jade

  • Epilogue: Across the Four Seas

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780190614515
ISBN-10: 019061451X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Elliott, Mai
Auflage: 2. Auflage
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Maße: 229 x 152 x 29 mm
Von/Mit: Mai Elliott
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2017
Gewicht: 0,792 kg
Artikel-ID: 121048081
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