The story of a young six-year-old boy, Quy, separated from his family as they are fleeing Vietnam to begin a new life in Canada. Twenty years later his mother still lives in hope of finding him. Meanwhile Quy, now a dangerous criminal,...
Vietnamese
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Author:Brand, DionneSummary: -
Author:Thúy, Kim.Summary:Mon prénom, Bào Vi, illustrait l'intention de mes parents de protéger la plus petite . Si l'on traduit littéralement, je suis Précieuse minuscule microscopique . Comme dans la plupart des cas au Vietnam, je n'ai pas...
- Author:Nguyen, Mai.Summary:
A tender and funny debut about a Vietnamese Canadian family who will do whatever it takes to keep their no-frills nail salon afloat after a multimillion-dollar chain opens across the street. Vietnamese refugees Debbie and Phil Tran have...
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Author:Zeiss, Joyce BurnsSummary:After the fall of South Vietnam, fourteen-year-old Mai, a young Vietnamese girl of Chinese descent, is torn from a life of privilege and forced to flee across the South China Sea in the hold of a fishing trawler. Mai finds tenuous...
- Author:Bosc, Paul, Dupas, Philippe, Therrien, JoanneSummary:
L’arrivée de voisins d’origine vietnamienne intrigue Chanelle. Que peuvent-ils bien cacher dans le grenier? Que laisse entrevoir la lueur qui se dégage de leur lucarne? Se peut-il que Chanelle puisse se faire de nouveaux amis? Un regard...
- Author:Thi, Kim Phuc PhanSummary:
Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames-before napalm bombs...
- Author:Thúy, KimSummary:
"Em, c'est le fifil qui relie les ouvriers des plantations de caoutchouc et les femmes des salons de manucure aux orphelins de l'opération Babylift, qui a évacué des enfants de Saigon en 1975. Em, c'est celle qui aime."
- Author:Johnson, CraigSummary:
In this fourth installment, Longmire is called to investigate a dead Vietnamese girl found along the Wyoming highway.
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Author:Kuitenbrouwer, KathrynSummary:September, 1983. Fourteen-year-old Bo, a boat person from Vietnam, lives in a small house in the Junction neighbourhood of Toronto with his mother, Thao, and his four-year-old sister, who was born severely disfigured from the effects of...
