The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars

The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars

One of the Ten Best Books of the Year, Washington Post Book World
One of the Los Angeles Timesâ€™ Favorite Books of the Year
One of the Top Ten National Books of 2008, Portland Oregonian
A 2009 Honor Book of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association

â€œFew books have combined the historical scope and the literary skill to give the Âforeign reader a sense of events from a Vietnamese perspective. . . . Now we can add Andrew Phamâ€™s Eaves of Heaven to this list of indispensable books.â€
â€”New York Times Book Review

â€œSearing . . . vividâ€“and harrowing . . . Here is war and life through the eyes of a Vietnamese everyman.â€
â€”Seattle Times

Once wealthy landowners, Thong Van Phamâ€™s family was shattered by the tumultuous events of the twentieth century: the French occupation of Indochina, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the Vietnam War.
Told in dazzling chapters that alternate between events in the past and those closer to the present, The Eaves of Heaven brilliantly re-creates the trials of everyday life in Vietnam as endured by one man, from the fall of Hanoi and the collapse of French colonialism to the frenzied evacuation of Saigon. Pham offers a rare portal into a lost world as he chronicles Thong Van Phamâ€™s heartbreaks, triumphs, and bizarre reversals of fortune, whether as a South Vietnamese soldier pinned down by enemy ï¬re, a prisoner of the North Vietnamese under brutal interrogation, or a refugee desperately trying to escape Vietnam after the last American helicopter has abandoned Saigon. This is the story of a man caught in the maelstrom of twentieth-century politics, a gripping memoir told with the urgency of a wartime dispatch by a writer of surpassing talent.
Country USA
Brand CROWN
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780307381217
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2009-06-23
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780307381217

Country	USA
Brand	CROWN
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780307381217
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2009-06-23
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780307381217

The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars

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