| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Summary |
This riveting, beautifully produced graphic memoir tells the story of the early years of the Vietnam war as seen through the eyes of a young boy named Marco, the son of a Vietnamese diplomat and his French wife. The book opens in America, where the boy's father works for the South Vietnam embassy; there the boy is made to feel self-conscious about his otherness thanks to schoolmates who play war games against the so-called "Commies." The family is called back to Saigon in 1961, where the father becomes Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem's personal interpreter; as the growing conflict between North and South intensifies, so does turmoil within Marco's family, as his mother struggles to grapple with bipolar disorder. Visually powerful and emotionally potent, Such a Lovely Little War is both a large-scale and intimate study of the Vietnam war as seen through the eyes of the Vietnamese: a turbulent national history interwined with an equally traumatic familial one. |
| Audience |
Rated PA |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Truong, Marcelino -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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Graphic novels.
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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| Added Author |
Homel, David, translator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781551526492 (electronic bk.) |
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1551526492 (electronic bk.) |
| Music No. |
MWT11884833 |
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