It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. It’s also unusual that such a ...

which was in a section of French Indochina named Annam by the colonizers. Duy, Phong and Minh are all Annamites — with Duy ...

It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. It’s also unusual that such a ...

Those Opulent Days” is a historical novel set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, when it was part of colonial French Indochina It’s ...

One day in 1946 a French officer in Hanoi saw a moon-faced little Indo-Chinese looking at a book the Frenchman had left on his desk. “May I borrow the book?” the little man asked politely.