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Can I read Such a lovely little war : Saigon, 1961-63 on EtoBox?
Such a lovely little war : Saigon, 1961-63 by Marcelino Truong is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Such a lovely little war : Saigon, 1961-63 about?
A memoir, in graphic novel form, on the early years of the Vietnam war through the eyes of a young Vietnamese boy. 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 Vietnamesediplomat and his French wife. The book opens in America, where the boy's father works for the South Vietnamese 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 Presideent 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.
Who reads Such a lovely little war : Saigon, 1961-63?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Marcelino Truong
- Publisher
- Consortium Book Sales & Dist
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781551526478
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Fiction, Comics
- Rating
- 3.89 / 5 (171 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14