The sacred willow : four generations in the life of a Vietnamese family /

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"A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural poverty to become an influential lan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Elliott, Duong Van Mai, 1941- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Edición:Second edition.
Temas:
Elliott, Duong Van Mai, > 1941- > Family.
Duong family.
Duong (Famille)
Elliott, Duong Van Mai, > 1941-
1800-1999
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
Families.
Vietnam > History > 19th century.
Vietnam > History > 20th century.
Vân Đình (Vietnam) > Genealogy.
Vietnam > Genealogy.
Viêt-nam > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Viêt-nam > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Vietnam.
Vietnam > Vân Đình.
Genealogy.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A burial in the night
  • Shut gate and high walls
  • The silk merchant
  • French veneer, Confucian soul
  • Taxes, floods, and robbers
  • The third month in the year of the famine
  • The head on the roof
  • Into the resistance zone
  • Poison and bribes
  • The fall of a border garrison
  • Sifting through the rubble
  • The new Mecca
  • Just cause
  • Short peace, long war
  • Flying into the unknown
  • The spoils of victory
  • The hours of gold and jade
  • Epilogue : across the four seas.

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