Monsoon

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2007
Edition: Reprint

Description: 453 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Sandy And Anna Decide To Explore The Popular Tourist Destinations Of Beautiful Vietnam After Sandy Had Been Working There For Four Years.

Publishers Description: Synopsis by Pan MacMillan AustraliaMonsoon... is a journey into the hearts and memories of those caught in a certain time in a particular place.Sandy Donaldson has been working for a volunteer organisation in Vietnam for the past four years. As her contract nears it end, she is reluctant to leave so she invites her oldest friend, Anna, to come for a holiday and discover its beautiful tourist destinations. Both girls have unexplored links to this country. Sandy's father is a Vietnam vet and Anna's mother was a Vietnamese boat person.During their travels, they meet Tom, an old Australian journalist who covered the war and plans to report on the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan. It is Tom who tries to persuade Sandy's father to return to Long Tan and settle the ghosts that have haunted him for 40 years, and suggests that Anna should delve into her mother's past.But the girls are reluctant, swept up in their own concerns, relationships, and a business deal that has the potential to go horribly wrong. However, it is the near-blind Buddhist nun living alone in the pagoda atop one of the karsts in Halong Bay who might hold the key.

ISBN: 9781405038188