The eaves of heaven
Subtitle: a life in three wars
By: by Andrew X. Pham, on behalf of my father, Thong Van Pham.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780307381217
Subjects: Pham, Thong Van; Vietnamese Americans -- Biography; Refugees -- United States -- Biography; Vietnam -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography
Description: From Andrew X. Pham, the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala, a son's searing memoir of his Vietnamese father's experiences over the course of three wars. Once wealthy landowners, Thong Van Pham's family was shattered by the tumultuous events of the twentieth century: the festering French occupation of Indochina, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the Vietnam War. Told in dazzling chapters that alternate between events in the past and those closer to the present, The Eaves of Heaven brilliantly re-creates the trials of everyday life in Vietnam as endured by one man, from the fall of Hanoi and the collapse of French colonialism to the frenzied evacuation of Saigon. Pham offers a rare portal into a lost world as he chronicles Thong Van Pham's heartbreaks, triumphs, and bizarre reversals of fortune, whether as a South Vietnamese soldier pinned down by enemy fire, a prisoner of the North Vietnamese under brutal interrogation, or a refugee desperately trying to escape Vietnam after the last American helicopter has abandoned Saigon.--From publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Harmony Books, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299).