Query: Novels set in Vietnam but not about disasters
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Up Country
The Tiger General
Mandarin (Havan novel)
Dumb Luck (novel)
The Gangster We Are All Looking For
Monkey Hunting
The Time in Between
Saigon (Killmaster novel)
Baraka (novel)
Evidence from documents: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: The novel also recounts the life of Little Dog's grandmother, Lan, who escapes an arranged marriage during the Vietnam War and becomes a prostitute.
Up Country: But when his former boss calls in a career's worth of favors, Paul finds himself having to do the last thing he ever wanted-return to Vietnam.
The Tiger General: Novels set in Vietnam: '''The Tiger General''', subtitled ''The Memoirs of a Vietnamese Intelligence Chief'', is a novel by John Havan.
not about disasters: A born survivor, Hai continually re-invents himself under the French, Viet Minh and Japanese regimes. At thirty-six years of age, he comes into his own and his rise is unstoppable, emerging as the 'Tiger General' in the South Vietnamese Republic.
Mandarin (Havan novel): ''Mandarin''', subtitled ''A Novel of Viet Nam'', is a novel by John Havan. The protagonist, ''Bach'', is the first-born son of the most powerful mandarin at the Nguyễn dynasty court in Hue.
Dumb Luck (novel): The novel was banned by the Vietnamese Communist Party, first in North Vietnam from 1960 to 1975, then throughout the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam until 1986, due to the author's realistic description of sexual content which was considered unsuitable.
The Gangster We Are All Looking For: '''''The Gangster We Are All Looking For''''' is the first novel by Vietnamese-American author lê thi diem thúy, published in 2003. It was first published as a short piece in ''The Best American Essays of 1997'' and was also awarded a Pushcart Prize “Special Mention.”


The novel is a fragmented sequence of events recollected by a nameless narrator. In a first-person narrative, the narrator tells the stories of her past experiences as a Vietnamese immigrant. The time and place continuously shift throughout the novel; the story takes place both in Vietnam and America. The novel is concerned with themes of identity, family dynamics, war, and liberation. Images of water are prominent symbolically and literally throughout the novel.
The novel is told through the voice of the immigrant girl when she is six, and continues building until she was 26.
Monkey Hunting: The novel follows four generations of one family: Chen Pan, who leaves China in 1857 on the promise of success in Cuba only to find himself enslaved as an indentured worker; his Chinese granddaughter, Chen Fang, who is raised as a boy so that she can be educated (unbeknownst to her father, who has returned to Cuba as a doctor); and Chen Pan's great-grand-grandson Domingo, who moves with his father to the United States, where he enlists to fight in Vietnam.
The Time in Between: '''''The Time in Between''''' is a novel by Canadian author David Bergen. It deals with a man, who mysteriously returns to Vietnam, where he had been a soldier earlier in his life, followed by his children, who also go to Vietnam to search for him. The novel was the recipient of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award in 2005.
Saigon (Killmaster novel): First edition
'''''Saigon''''' is the sixth novel in the long-running Nick Carter-Killmaster series of spy novels. Carter is a US secret agent, code-named N-3, with the rank of Killmaster. He works for AXE – a secret arm of the US intelligence services.
The book was first published in December 1964 (Number A122F) by Award Books part of the Beacon-Signal division of Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation (New York, USA), part of the Conde Nast Publications Inc. The novel was written by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman. Copyright was registered in the US.
The story is set in August–September 1964. Claire La Farge, widow of a French intelligence officer, lives in a large rice and tea plantation in North Vietnam.
Baraka (novel): '''Baraka, or the Lives, Fortunes and Sacred Honor of Anthony Smith''''' (commonly referred to simply as '''''Baraka Lives''''') is a novel written by Canadian writer and essayist John Ralston Saul. It was first published in 1983.
The story involves a multinational oil company's attempts to gain oil rights in Vietnam by supporting an arms deal.