Query: Novels that take place in Vietnam but not about the military
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Gangster We Are All Looking For
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Dusklands
Baraka (novel)
Mandarin (Havan novel)
Things We Lost to the Water
Up Country
The Time in Between
Dumb Luck (novel)
Evidence from documents: The Gangster We Are All Looking For: the story takes place both in Vietnam and America.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: 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.


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.
Dusklands: Eugene works for a U.S. government agency responsible for the psychological warfare in the Vietnam War.
Mandarin (Havan novel): ern Vietnamese socialist state. The book is an epic tale of love and war, struggle, loss, and rebir
Things We Lost to the Water: '''''Things We Lost to the Water''''' is the 2021 debut novel by American author Eric Nguyen.
The novel is told from multiple perspectives between 1978 and 2005. Most of the story takes place in the lower income neighborhoods of New Orleans, Louisiana. Hương comes to New Orleans with her five year old son Tuấn and baby Bình at the beginning of the story from a Singaporean refugee camp. Her husband, Công, had chosen to stay in Vietnam. And she chooses to tell her children that he had died trying to leave North Vietnam. His absence punctuates the rest of the novel
Up Country: But almost as soon as he returns to Vietnam, a country that still haunts him, he discovers that there is much more to this investigation than a forgotten murder.
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.
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.