Voices & Visions: A Journey Through Vietnam Today - Hardcover

Visser, Carolijn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0873647610 ISBN 13: 9780873647618

Publisher: Sycamore Island Books, 1994

Synopsis

Voices and Visions sweeps the reader along on Carolijn Visser's four-month journey through Vietnam and gives voice to the remarkable cast of characters - from prostitutes to princesses, from soldiers to singers, from peasants to priests - who inhabit Vietnam today. Join Visser as she roams the Mekong Delta, wanders through Saigon and Hanoi, ventures into the Central Highlands and explores the old imperial capital of Hue - and discover a country ravaged by decades of war but fortified by its history, its culture, its geography, its vision for the future and its people.

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Dutch

From Publishers Weekly:

In this unconventional and involving record of a quest for understanding, Visser, a Dutch travel writer, turns to good advantage her distance from what the Vietnamese call "the American war." For four months in 1992 she wandered around Saigon, Hanoi, Hue, the Mekong Delta and mountain villages on buses and motorbikes, drinking beer, attending parties and weddings, listening attentively, observing acutely, delicately posing difficult questions. She was rewarded with friendships and revealing stories. With a gift for conveying character, ambience and dialogue, Visser introduces us to communists, noncommunists, ex-communists, opportunists, idealists, writers, musicians, shopkeepers, clerics. The elegant reserve of the North Vietnamese, the easy openness of the Southerners, the landscapes, architecture, enduring cultural impact of the French occupation, ambivalence toward the U.S. all inform her report, as does the continuing impact of the war. In Hanoi, when a disillusioned communist wonders what they fought for and why so many died, the puzzlement echoes what Visser heard everywhere.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Sycamore Island Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0873647610
• ISBN 13: 9780873647618
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 249