Postcards from Nam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postcards from Nam write by Nhu Nguyện Duong. This book was released on 2011. Postcards from Nam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction: Multicultural category of the 2012 International Book Awards Mimi (the protagonist of Mimi and Her Mirror) is a successful young Vietnamese immigrant practicing law in Washington, D.C. when the postcards begin to arrive. Postmarked from Thailand, each hand-drawn card is beautifully rendered and signed simply "Nam." Mimi doesn't recognize the name, but Nam obviously knows her well, spurring her to launch what will become a decade-long quest to find him. As her search progresses, long-repressed memories begin to bubble to the surface: her childhood in 1970s Vietnam in a small alley in pre-Communist Saigon. Back then, who was her best friend as well as her brother's playmate, and what did art have anything to do with the alleys of her childhood? What was the dream of these children then? What happened when these children were separated by the end of the Vietnam war, their lives diverged onto different paths: one to freedom and opportunity, the other to tragedy and pain? Now Mimi must uncover the mystery of the postcards, including what might have happened to the people who where less fortunate: those who escaped the ravaged homeland by boat after the fall of Saigon. When the mystery is solved, Mimi has to make a resolution: what can possibly reunite the children from the alley of her childhood even when the alley exists no more?
Boring Postcards
Boring Postcards - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Boring Postcards write by Martin Parr. This book was released on 2004-03-01. Boring Postcards available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Martin Parr is a key figure in the world of photography and contemporary art. Some accuse him of cruelty, but many more appreciate the wit and irony with which he tackles such subjects as bad taste, food, the tourist, shopping and the foibles of the British. Parr has been collecting postcards for 20 years, and here is the cream of his collection - his boring postcards. With no introduction or commentary of any kind, Parr's boring postcards are reproduced straight. They are exactly what they say they are, namely boring picture postcards showing boring photographs of boring places, presumably for boring people to buy to send to their boring friends. All of them are shot in Britain, taking us on a boring tour of its motorways, ring roads, traffic interchanges, bus stations, pedestrian precincts, factories, housing estates, airports, caravan sites, convalescent homes and shopping centres. Some attempt to idealize their subjects, only to fail dismally. Others lack any apparent purpose or interest, but the resultant collection of photographic images is wholly compelling. Boring Postcardsis multi-layered: a commentary on British architecture, social life and identity, a record of a folk photography which is today being appropriated by the most fashionable photographers (including Parr), an exercise in sublime minimalism and, above all, a richly comic photographic entertainment.
Making Sense of the Great War
Making Sense of the Great War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Sense of the Great War write by Alex Mayhew. This book was released on 2024-03-31. Making Sense of the Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This interdisciplinary account explores how English infantrymen in Belgium and France experienced and coped with war between 1914 and 1918.
Let's Go Vietnam 2nd Edition
Let's Go Vietnam 2nd Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Let's Go Vietnam 2nd Edition write by Let's Go Inc.. This book was released on 2006-11-28. Let's Go Vietnam 2nd Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Packed with travel information, including more listings, deals, and insider tips:CANDID LISTINGS of hundreds of places to eat, sleep, drink, and danceRELIABLE MAPS to help you get around cities, jungles, mountains, and beachesThe best VOLUNTEER, study, and work opportunities throughout VietnamTIPS for getting around, bargaining, and blending in with local customsSUGGESTED ITINERARIES for your time frame, from ten days to two monthsEXPANDED COVERAGE of the remote Northwest Highlands
Hearings
Hearings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hearings write by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. This book was released on 1969. Hearings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
