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Such a lovely little war : Saigon, 1961-63 / Marcelino Truong ; translated by David Homel.

by Truong, Marcelino.

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Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016.

Truong, Marcelino -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, Vietnamese -- Comic books, strips, etc.

9781551526478 (trade pbk.)

1551526476 (trade pbk.)

Si jolie petite guerre. English.

271 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Translated from the French.

"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 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."--From publisher.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Graphic non-fiction.

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