Uyen Nicole Duong
Autor(a) de Daughters of the River Huong
Séries
Obras por Uyen Nicole Duong
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 20th century
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Vietnam (birth)
USA - Local de nascimento
- Vietnam
- Locais de residência
- Houston, Texas, USA
- Educação
- Southern Illinois University (BS|Journalism/Communication)
University of Houston (JD)
Harvard Law School (LLM) - Ocupações
- Law professor
novelist
Membros
Críticas
Postcards From Nam por Uyen Nicole Duong
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… (mais)
½
Recommended by a friend. Fascinating saga with Vietnam history as the backdrop.
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.
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.
Prémios
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Membros
- 113
- Popularidade
- #173,161
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 6
- ISBN
- 7