Kien Nguyen, Author . Little, Brown $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-28441-7
Nguyen follows his acclaimed memoir, The Unwanted (2001)
, with a daringly complex and vividly imagined debut novel about a boy who fights to reclaim his family's royal legacy in Vietnam at the turn of the century. Seven-year-old Dan Nguyen is...
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Kien Nguyen, Author . Little, Brown $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-28501-8
A quest to convert lost souls turns into a battle for survival for three French missionaries in 18th-century Vietnam, or Annam, in Nguyen's richly detailed, evocative second novel. Each missionary hails from a completely different background:...
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Kien Nguyen, Author Little Brown and Company $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-28664-0
The son of a wealthy Vietnamese woman and an American businessman, Nguyen was nearly eight when Saigon fell to the Vietcong. For the next decade he and his family endured hardships brought on by the privileged lives they had enjoyed under the...
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