Sweet foretaste of the summer wind,

Across the waving green of the young rice,

Across the unchained current of the distant dream,

Between the singing strands of taut-stretched barrier-wire,

Only the prisoner knows these things…

A composition of recollections both in the past and present, this novel portrays the hardships and struggles that a Vietnamese family endures through the years of approaching communism. Their desperate flea from the only home they have

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