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Perfume Dreams
Andrew Lam
其他書名
Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
出版Heyday Books, 2005
主題Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, PublishersBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsHistory / Asia / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander StudiesSocial Science / Refugees
ISBN15971402019781597140201
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8sl1AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general, came to California on the eve of the fall of Saigon to communist forces. He traded his Vietnamese name for a more American one and immersed himself in the allure of the American dream: something not clearly defined for him or his family. Reflecting on the meanings of the Vietnam War to the Vietnamese people themselves--particularly to those in exile--Lam picks with searing honesty at the roots of his doubleness and his parents' longing for a homeland that no longer exists.