I have no early memory of Vietnam.
An edition of Earth and Water
(1997)
Earth and water
encounters in Viet Nam
by Edith Shillue
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Born in the early 1960s and having no direct experience of the Viet Nam War, Edith Shillue arrived in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in September 1993 from her native Massachusetts to begin work as a university lecturer in English and American history. This book is a lively rendering of her time there and in Nam Ha Province in northern Viet Nam, where she later taught in village schools.
Living and working with the Vietnamese, Shillue became acquainted with their language, history, and culture through circumstances that range from comic to heartbreaking. Her memoir provides the reader with sharp observation and thoughtful commentary, whether she is portraying her home life with a Vietnamese family, recounting the joys and frustrations of teaching at both the grade school and university levels, or journeying to the Mekong Delta, Hanoi, or the killing fields of Cambodia.
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Earth and Water: Encounters in Viet Nam
March 1998, University of Massachusetts Press
Paperback
in English
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Earth and Water: Encounters in Viet Nam
March 1998, University of Massachusetts Press
Hardcover
in English
1558491287 9781558491281
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Earth and water: encounters in Viet Nam
1997, University of Massachusetts Press
in English
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