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As the Heart Bones Break

4/5 ( ratings)

Shortlisted for Best Fiction Title, Singapore Book Awards 2016

In Thong Tran's Vietnam, everyone is at war and no one is who they seem not his adopted father, a French civil servant, not his Blood Father, the Viet Cong rooster master, not his pro-American journalist tutor. Like them, the boy from the Mekong Delta cannot escape the war. And like them, he too must create shades of himself to survive. But even a conflicted heart needs a home. Thong yearns for a true father and a cause to give himself to. He chooses independence, liberty and happiness his tutor and the Viet Cong. Tragically, there s no independence, liberty or happiness at war s end. Re-invented as an American aerospace engineer, husband and father the Viet Cong informer must spend another half a lifetime crossing the Pacific as a defense industry dealmaker before he can set down the bones rankling in his heart.

Language: English

Pages: 360

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)

Release: August 07, 2015

ISBN: 9814484075

ISBN 13: 9789814484077

As the Heart Bones Break

4/5 ( ratings)

Shortlisted for Best Fiction Title, Singapore Book Awards 2016

In Thong Tran's Vietnam, everyone is at war and no one is who they seem not his adopted father, a French civil servant, not his Blood Father, the Viet Cong rooster master, not his pro-American journalist tutor. Like them, the boy from the Mekong Delta cannot escape the war. And like them, he too must create shades of himself to survive. But even a conflicted heart needs a home. Thong yearns for a true father and a cause to give himself to. He chooses independence, liberty and happiness his tutor and the Viet Cong. Tragically, there s no independence, liberty or happiness at war s end. Re-invented as an American aerospace engineer, husband and father the Viet Cong informer must spend another half a lifetime crossing the Pacific as a defense industry dealmaker before he can set down the bones rankling in his heart.

Language: English

Pages: 360

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)

Release: August 07, 2015

ISBN: 9814484075

ISBN 13: 9789814484077

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