Query: Novels that take place in Vietnam that aren't about war
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Tiger General
The Gangster We Are All Looking For
Mandarin (Havan novel)
Saigon (Killmaster novel)
Baraka (novel)
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Dusklands
Operation Burning Candle
Monkey Hunting
Dumb Luck (novel)
The Time in Between
Evidence from documents: The Tiger General: .The protagonist, ''Hai'', is the illegitimate son of ''Bach'', the protagonist of the preceding work. 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.
The Gangster We Are All Looking For: the story takes place both in Vietnam and America. The novel is concerned with themes of identity, family dynamics, war, and liberation.
Mandarin (Havan novel): Bach grows up to be a robust and handsome young man, irresistible to the women in his life, brilliant at his studies and with a natural gift for the martial arts, but his way of life is doomed in the cataclysmic birth throes of the modern Vietnamese socialist state
Saigon (Killmaster novel): 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): Novels that take place in Vietnam: The story involves a multinational oil company's attempts to gain oil rights in Vietnam by supporting an arms deal.
Novels that take place in Vietnam that aren't about war: '''''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.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: '''''On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous''''' is the debut novel by Vietnamese-American poet Ocean Vuong, published by Penguin Press on June 4, 2019. An epistolary novel, it is written in the form of a letter from a Vietnamese American son to his illiterate mother.
The novel is written in the form of a letter by a young Vietnamese American nicknamed Little Dog, whose life mirrors that of Ocean Vuong. The letter is written to Little Dog's mother Hong, more often called or translated as Rose (''hồng''). The novel has a nonlinear narrative structure.
Operation Burning Candle: '''''Operation Burning Candle''''' is a novel by Blyden Jackson published in 1973. It was his debut novel. It describes a political conspiracy led by a group called the Black Warriors, whose leader is Vietnam War veteran and Harlem native Captain Aaron Rogers. The conspiracy does not appear clear until more than halfway through the novel and refers to a traumatic event to galvanize the black community in the US to take control of their own destiny. The novel culminates with a series of killings at a political convention held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The title of the book refers to the three part plan in
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.
Dumb Luck (novel): '''Dumb Luck''''' (''Số đỏ'') is a 1936 novel by Vietnamese novelist Vũ Trọng Phụng which satirises the late-colonial Vietnamese middle classes.
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.