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Title: Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives by James M. Freeman ISBN: 0-8047-1890-3 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Unforgettable experience.
Comment: This is the story of 14 Vietnamese who had escaped Vietnam after the end of the war and came to reside in the USA. The author had spent a long time interviewing them and penning down their stories.
After the war, these people were ready to "accommodate to the communist life style" when they realized they were harassed then thrown into concentration camps where they had to endure punishment and revenge for years and years. Even after release from the camps, they were watched closed, lost their human rights and were returned to jails at the slightest infraction. Unable to live under this suffucating environment, they escaped abroad.
An ex-colonel detailed his incarceration in a northern camp where 12 inmates out of 500 died of dysentery (a curable form of intractable diarrhea) and others hunted for and ate mice and crickets "raw" in order to survive. He was then transferred to a Nghe An camp where he was forced to collect human wastes with his bare hands to be used as fertilizers and was not allowed to wash his hands before having supper. After one week of such treatment, all inmates in his company gave up resistance.
This is a fascinating book, which although published in 1989 remains an important contribution to the Vietnamese American literature and folklore.
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Title: Voices of Vietnamese Boat People: Nineteen Narratives of Escape and Survival by Mary Terrell Cargill, Jade Quang Huynh, Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh ISBN: 0786407859 Publisher: McFarland & Company Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood by Kien Nguyen ISBN: 0316284610 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 08 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Vietnamese Experience in America (Minorities in Modern America) by Paul James Rutledge ISBN: 0253207118 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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