Vietnam, My Love [Paperback]

Frank Vinh Noan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 27, 1999

Vietnam, My Love speaks to all people who have wanted life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and are willing to pay a high price for those goals. This new book is about life in Saigon immediately after the abandonment by the U.S. military provides: * An explanation of the horror and terror faced by those left behind; * A revelation of a fascinating unconditional love between a Vietnamese man and an American woman journalist! * A proud cry from all Vietnamese seeking freedom at any price! * A first-time view of Communist atrocities upon ordinary people! * An examination of the prejudice against an Amerasian child! * A revelation about the untold story of the Boat People! * A shocking expose about the place known as "Rape Island" in the South China Sea!

Vietnam, My Love is a 'must-read' for all Americans who recall the Vietnam War. It is a book necessary to understand and to remember the suffering of thousands of refugees who fled the Communists from Hanoi.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Vietnam, My Love: the title engenders all the multiplicty of meaning that one finds on each page of this extraordinary novel by Frank Vinh. Does the title refer to Vietnam as the object of a patriot's love? Does the title echo the plaintive cry of a place where one loses his life, his family, and his heritage?

What Frank Vinh has done, as exemplified by the title, is to show the parallel universe of irony that envelops the entire experience his characters feel, the full range of emotions all Americans of a certain generation remember about Vietnam...

About the Author

A descendent of the Vietnamese Royal Family, Frank Vinh grew up in Hue, the ancient capital of Vietnam. He moved to the United States in 1970, when Vietnam slid deeper into the war. He began a professional career in the film industry as Associate Producer of the Hollywood classic, 'The Quiet American', directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. He also wrote and directed "We Want To Live", a film honored at the Asian Film Festival in Seoul, South Korea.

After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Vinh devoted most of his time to help the desperate plight of the Vietnamese Boat People, stranded in various refugee camps in South East Asia. He wrote 'Vietnam, My Love' to put forward a different perspective of the consequences of the war in Vietnam, one which involves the hearts of ordinary people from both Vietnam and the United States of America.

Product Details

• Paperback: 179 pages
• Publisher: Lukeion Pr (November 27, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 189218317X
• ISBN-13: 978-1892183170
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,598,860 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Emotional! An amazing book!, December 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Vietnam, My Love (Paperback)

The novel is a revelation of how much one is willing to pay for freedom and happiness. This captivating story will touch your heart regardless of your background. The author's sincere style of storytelling is moving. He's able to make the reader experience all the emotions that the main character is feeling. The book tells an enlightning and educational story depicting the unimaginable saga of the Boat People. I definitely recommend it!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vietnam, My Love, February 5, 2000

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Rollin A. Van Broekhoven (Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vietnam, My Love (Paperback)

Frank Vinh Noan has written a winsome and marvelous book that captures one's imagination. Part of the charm of the book is simply the story the author tells. However, the real charm is the way the author leaves the questions of love of country, love of culture, love of religious commitments, and love and devotion to families, both of one's birth and of one's marriage, as mysteries to be resolved by the reader's thought and imagination. This is not just a book of fiction. It also is a profound history of different cultures, different religions, and different countries, and the forces that brought them together. Then ending is both gripping and convicting, and must be read and felt to begin to understand what happened at the conclusion of the war in Vietnam. Anyone who lived through the period known as the war in Vietnam will have to re-examine assumptions and come to terms with importance of that period of history, both on Vietnam and on the United States. After having read the book several times, I felt I knew the author and his family in a deeply personal way. This is what good reading is all about.

5.0 out of 5 stars The best screen writer, June 4, 2000

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Van Pham (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vietnam, My Love (Paperback)

Among all the movies and books that I have read bout the Vietnam war(my father and uncles were officers in the Vietminh and later the North Vietnamese army), only one film truely depict the war and its effect on the Vietnamese. That movie is called "We want to Live", directed and written by Vinh Noan. This book is no less accurate as the film that Vinh Noan have made.