Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-63 by Truong, Marcelino

Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-63

This riveting, beautifully produced graphic memoir tells the story of the early years of the Vietnam war...
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Author: Marcelino Truong
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Language: English
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Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-63 by Truong, Marcelino

Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-63

¥5,877

Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-63

¥5,877
Author: Marcelino Truong
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 Vietnamese diplomat and his French wife. The book opens in America, where the boy's father works for the South Vietnam 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 Prime Minister 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.

Marcelino Truong is an illustrator, painter, and author. Born the son of a Vietnamese diplomat in 1957 in the Philippines, he and his family moved to America (where his father worked for the embassy) and then to Vietnam at the outset of the war. He earned degrees in law at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and English literature at the Sorbonne. He lives in Paris, France.



Author: Marcelino Truong
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: 10/25/2016
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781551526478
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2016
Shelf Awareness 11/08/2016
Library Journal 11/15/2016 pg. 73
Publishers Weekly 01/30/2017

About the Author
Marcelino Truong: Marcelino Truong is an illustrator, painter, and author. Born the son of a Vietnamese diplomat in 1957 in the Philippines, he and his family moved to America (where his father worked for the embassy) and then to Vietnam at the outset of the war. He earned degrees in law at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and English literature at the Sorbonne. He has authored many French-language books for all ages, and exhibited his paintings in galleries around the world.
David Homel: David Homel was born and raised in Chicago in 1952. He has been a journalist, editor, literary translator, and teacher, and has won numerous awards for translation, including the Governor General's Award for Literature, Canada's highest literary honor.


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