Such a Lovely Little War
Subtitle: Saigon, 1961-63
By: Marcelino Truong ; translated by David Homel
Contributors: Homel, David, translator
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Vancouver, Canada
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Une si jolie petite guerre
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781551526478
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnamese Personal narratives; Comic books, strips
Work titles: Si jolie petite guerre
Description: A memoir, in graphic novel form, on the early years of the Vietnam war through the eyes of a young Vietnamese boy.

This riveting, beautifully produced graphic memoir tells the story of the early years of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a young boy named Marco, the son of a Vietnamesediplomat and his French wife. The book opens in America, where the boy's father works for the South Vietnamese embassy; there the boy is made to feel self-conscious about his otherness thanks to schoolmates who play war games against the so-called "Commies. " The family is called back to Saigon in 1961, where the father becomes Presideent Ngo Dinh Diem's personal interpreter; as the growing conflict between North and South intensifies, so does turmoil within Marco's family, as his mother struggles to grapple with bipolar disorder.

Visually powerful and emotionally potent, Such a Lovely Little War is both a large-scale and intimate study of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of the Vietnamese: a turbulent national history interwined with an equally traumatic familial one.
Notes: Chiefly color illustrations. Issued also in electronic formats.