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

In 1945, France still had the world’s second-largest colonial empire, covering almost one-tenth of the Earth’s surface.

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 ...

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 novel ...

(Atlantic Monthly Press via AP) 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 ...

(Atlantic Monthly Press via AP) 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.