Verlag: Heyday, 2012
ISBN 10: 1597140201 ISBN 13: 9781597140201
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Verlag: Heyday, 2012
ISBN 10: 1597140201 ISBN 13: 9781597140201
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Verlag: Heyday, 2012
ISBN 10: 1597140201 ISBN 13: 9781597140201
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Zustand: Very Good. Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on half title page.
Verlag: Heyday, 2012
ISBN 10: 1597140201 ISBN 13: 9781597140201
Anbieter: medimops, Berlin, Deutschland
Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Heyday, (2012), 2012
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED - Trade paperback. A collection of essays in which Lam "explores his identity as a Viet Kieu (a Vietnamese national living abroad) residing in the United States. On April 28, 1975, 11-year-old Lam and his family fled Saigon aboard a crowded C130 cargo plane just two days before the fall of Saigon to Communist forces. His father, a respected South Vietnamese general, followed soon after, reuniting with the family in California, where they would begin at the bottom rung as they struggled to fulfill the American Dream." Robert Olen Butler comments that "Lam brilliantly illuminates the universal issues of self and home and human striving. He speaks to each of us quite individually and personally, with wit and compassion, about the things that connect us all at the deepest level." SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. Foreword by Richard Rodriguez. xv, 141 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Verlag: Heyday Books Okt 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 1597140201 ISBN 13: 9781597140201
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cultural Writing. Asian American Studies. In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his life-long struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general, came to California on the eve of the fall of Saigon to communist forces. He traded his Vietnamese name for a more American one and immersed himself in the allure of the American Dream: something not clearly defined for him or his family. Reflecting on the meanings of the Vietnam War to the Vietnamese people themselves--particularly to those in exile--Lam picks with searing honesty at the roots of his doubleness and his parents' longing for a homeland that no longer exists.
Verlag: HEYDAY BOOKS, 2012
ISBN 10: 1597140201 ISBN 13: 9781597140201
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Über den AutorAndrew Lam is an editor and cofounder of New America Media, an association of over two thousand ethnic media outlets in America. His essays have appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines across the country, and hi.