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Product Identifiers
PublisherCapital Books, Incorporated
ISBN-101931868204
ISBN-139781931868204
eBay Product ID (ePID)2362980
Product Key Features
Book TitleAutumn Cloud : from Vietnam War Widow to American Activist
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicWomen, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Political Process / Political Advocacy
Publication Year2002
GenreFamily & Relationships, Political Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorJackie Bong Wright
Book SeriesCapital Life Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight24 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"Wright's voice speaks to countless Vietnamese who survived foreign occupation and successive wars against the French, the Japanese, and the Americans. She writes of their struggle to make a success of their lives amidst the chaos and upheaval." Connecticut Post "Ms. Bong-Wright beautifully narrates her happy memories of childhood and her family... Still, she expertly weaves the story of her family and her life with the cultural mores that still baffle most Westerners...The premise and telling of her story is beautifully written in clear and symbolic prose...The book is lovely and clear" Hillary Condon, Midland Reporter-Telegram "Autumn Cloud is Jackie's deeply personal story of the Vietnam conflict, and her triumph over life's battles. The book is as much a celebration of her country and her people. Jackie shows Vietnam is not a one-word note, but many notes - indeed melodies." Featured by Jennie Ilustre in Asian Fortune "A woman struggles to rebuild her life after the devastation of the Vietnam War." Indianapolis Star "It is a truly remarkable story of a life lived amongst turmoil....The book is also a scholarly history of Vietnam (it contains a very helpful chronological outline of its history), the rise of French colonialism in that part of the world, a factual account of the benefits and evils of such imperialistic exploitation, and the results of the inevitable reaction to such governance by groups of opportunists of several kinds...If you want to try to understand what is going on in Southeast Asia and why, you can make no better start than to read this book. And then re-read it and admire the humanity, altruism, and tenacity of Autumn Cloud." Andrew Smith, Lebanon (MO) Daily Record
Dewey Decimal973/.049592/0092
SynopsisAutumn Cloud is the story of Jackie Bong Wright's family from the French colonial period, through the Vietnam War, to the present. Born in 1940, at the beginning of World War II, Ms. Wright stands at the center of the modern Indochinese drama, which started in the last century, and has yet to be fully played out. While the Vietnam War is deeply ingrained in a generation of Americans, its history for us is often one-sided - flavored with blame, corrupt generals and politicians, drugs, the Viet Cong and Saigon bar girls. In telling her family's story, she is also telling the story of countless Vietnamese families, ordinary people who struggled to make a success of their lives amidst chaos and upheaval. Ms. Wright moves from a girlhood on a Cambodian rubber plantation to school in Paris, marries a leading political dissident who is later murdered, escapes to America in 1975 with her children, and makes a new life, with a new American husband., "Le Hi Tu [Autumn Cloud] tells three stories in this smoothly written autobiography: her own, her family's and Vietnam's." Publishers Weekly, Le Hi Tu [Autumn Cloud] tells three stories in this smoothly written autobiography: her own, her family's and Vietnam's. Publishers Weekly
