- Juvenile literature, Biography, Social life and customs, Vietnam, juvenile literature
A collection of personal reminiscences of the author's youth in a hamlet on the central highlands of Vietnam.
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Earnest, classical in form, nostalgic and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
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About the book
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 127
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Harper & Row, HarperTrophy
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780064401838
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First sentence
“My family had land on which we grew rice.”
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