Query: Novels set in Vietnam excluding Novels set in the 1970s
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Baraka (novel)
The Time in Between
Hanoi (novel)
The Gangster We Are All Looking For
The Book of Salt
The Ambassador (West novel)
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
The Lover (Duras novel)
Dumb Luck (novel)
Saigon (Killmaster novel)
Monkey Hunting
The Tiger General
Evidence from documents: 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.
Hanoi (novel): '''''Hanoi''''' is the fifteenth 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 1966 (Number A182F) 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 Valerie Moolman. Copyright was registered on 1 February 1966.
Officers of the US Special Forces discover a secret camp in North Vietnam near Hanoi. The camp is guarded by Chinese soldiers and houses a group of German scientists, led by Ulric Krutch, who are working on a top secret rocket programme.
The Gangster We Are All Looking For: In a first-person narrative, the narrator tells the stories of her past experiences as a Vietnamese immigrant.
The Book of Salt: Bình struggles to find a love, acceptance, and a home in Paris after traumatizing experiences in his youth in French-colonized Vietnam
The Ambassador (West novel): The novel is fictionalisation of the period leading up to and shortly after the Coup d'état against and assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
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.
The Lover (Duras novel): ekong Delta, returning from a holiday at her family home in the town of Sa Đéc to her boarding school in Sai
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 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.
Saigon (Killmaster novel): Claire La Farge, widow of a French intelligence officer, lives in a large rice and tea plantation in North Vietnam.
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 Tiger General: '''The Tiger General''', subtitled ''The Memoirs of a Vietnamese Intelligence Chief'', is a novel by John Havan.