Monsoon. For Two Women A Trip To Vietnam Becomes A Quest For The Past And A Promise For The Future

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

Description: 453 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Sandra And Hope Have Been Volunteers In Vietnam For A Number Of Years. When Hope's Contract Finishes She Invites A Friend To Come Over And Explore Vietnam.

Publishers Description: Sandy Donaldson has been working for a volunteer organisation in Vietnam for the past four years. As her contract nears its end, she invites her oldest friend, Anna, to come for a holiday. 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. The girls are reluctant, swept up in their own concerns. 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