Vietnam: A Traveler's Literary Companion

by John Balaban

Book Overview

Since relations between the U.S. and Vietnam have normalized, many more people are traveling to this exotic country, previously closed to a generation of Western visitors. Vietnam provides one of the first chances for Americans to know the Vietnamese outside the context of war. Vietnamese have been telling stories for thousands of years, in poetry and in song, in Chinese script and then in Vietnamese n ocirc;m, and more recently, in novels...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883513022
• ISBN13: 9781883513023
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Whereabouts Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.4"