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Born in Hanoi, DANG THUY TRAM was a Vietnamese doctor who tended civilians as well as Viet Cong soldiers. She died in 1970 at the age of twenty-seven. To learn more about Dang Thuy Tram and how her diary came to be published, visit www.ThuyTram.com. Andrew X. Pham is the author of "Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam" and the forthcoming "The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars." He is the recipient of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize.
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"Now available for the first time in English - faithfully translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnamese American journalist Pham - [LAST NIGHT I DREAMED OF PEACE] is witness to the unjust horrors and countless tragedies of war, a reminder made more pertinent every day." --"The Bloomsbury Review" ""Last Night I Dreamed of Peace" is a book to be read by all and included in any course on the literature of war." --"Chicago Tribune" "Remarkable. . . . A gift from a heroine who was killed at twenty-seven but whose voice has survived to remind us of the humanity and decency that endure amid--and despite--the horror and chaos of war."--Francine Prose, O, "The Oprah Magazine" "As much a drama of feelings as a drama of war."--Seth Mydans, "New York Times" "An illuminating picture of what life was like among the enemy guerrillas, especially in the medical community."--The VVA Veteran, official publication of Vietnam Veterans of America "Idealistic young North Vietnamese doctor describes her labors in makeshift clinics and hidden hospitals during the escalation of the Vietnam War.Tram did not survive the war. On June 22, 1970, an American soldier shot her in the head while she was walking down a jungle pathway dressed in the conventional black pajamas of her compatriots. Judging by her diary, rescued from the flames by another American soldier and first published in Vietnam in 2005, she died with a firm commitment to the Communist Party, the reunion of Vietnam, her profession and her patients, many of whom she saved in surgeries conducted under the most primitive and dangerous conditions imaginable. In one of her first entries, on April 12, 1968, she characterizes herself as having 'the heart of a lonely girl filled with unanswered hopes and dreams.' This longing and yearning--especially for the lover she rarely sees, a man she names only as 'M' -- fills these pages and gives them a poignancy that is at times almost u
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- PublisherRider & Co
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1846040582
- ISBN 13 9781846040580
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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