Dec 27, 2009
The Land I Lost | The Land I Lost
At a glance:
- Author: Huynh Quang Nhuong
- First Published: 1982
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: The central highlands of Vietnam
- Principal Characters: Huynh Quang Nhuong, Tank, The father, The cousin, The grandmother, The mother, Mr. Short, Trung, The “two-steps” snake
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: 1950’s, Family or family life, Adolescence, Villages, Asia or Asians, Violence, Farms, farmers, or farming, Jungles or rain forests, Pets, Asian Americans, Vietnam or Vietnamese people, Wildlife, Crocodiles
- Locales: Vietnam
Form and Content
In The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam, Huynh
Quang Nhuong, like a storyteller in the market, spins tales of life
in a small montagnard (French for mountaineer) central
Vietnamese village, perched on the bank of a swift stream inhabited
by man-eating crocodiles, and surrounded by jungle-clad mountains
where wild animals roam. The villagers grow rice, sweet potatoes, and
corn during the rainy season and hunt in the jungle in the dry season.
In the evening, Nhuong’s father, a college graduate, teaches the
children for free because the...
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