Query: Non historical novels set in Vietnam
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Monkey Hunting
Operation Burning Candle
Dusklands
Up Country
The Book of Salt
Baraka (novel)
The Time in Between
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Saigon (Killmaster novel)
The Gangster We Are All Looking For
Dumb Luck (novel)
Evidence from documents: Monkey Hunting: he 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.
Operation Burning Candle: He has supposedly been killed in Vietnam and his body has been flown back to the US for burial.
Dusklands: '''''Dusklands''''' (1974) is the debut novel by J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel consists of two separate stories, "The Vietnam Project" and "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee."
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 Book of Salt: It presents a narrative through the eyes of Bình, a Vietnamese cook. His story centers in Paris in his life as the cook in the home of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and is supplemented by his memories of his childhood in French-colonial Vietnam.
Baraka (novel): The story involves a multinational oil company's attempts to gain oil rights in Vietnam by supporting an arms deal.
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.
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.
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.
The Gangster We Are All Looking For: Non historical novels set in Vietnam: '''''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.”
Vietnam: The time and place continuously shift throughout the novel; the story takes place both in Vietnam and America.
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.