Ship of Fate: Memoir of a Vietnamese Repatriate (Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies)
By Trụ Đình Trần.
Description
Ship of Fate tells the emotionally gripping story of a Vietnamese military officer who evacuated from Saigon in 1975 but made the dramatic decision to return to Vietnam for his wife and children, rather than resettle in the United States without them. Written in Vietnamese in the years just after 1991, when he and his family finally immigrated to the United States, Trần Đình Trụ’s memoir provides a detailed and searing account of his individual trauma as a refugee in limbo, and then as a prisoner in the Vietnamese reeducation camps.In April 1975, more than 120,000 Indochinese r...
ISBN(s)
0824872495, 9780824872496
