The Resource The sacred willow : four generations in the life of a Vietnamese family, Mai Elliott
The sacred willow : four generations in the life of a Vietnamese family, Mai Elliott
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The item The sacred willow : four generations in the life of a Vietnamese family, Mai Elliott represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
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- Summary
- "A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural poverty to become an influential landowner, and continuing to the present, Mai Elliott traces her family's journey through an era of tumultuous change. She tells us of childhood hours in her grandmother's silk shop, and of hiding while French troops torched her village, watching while blossoms torn by fire from the trees flutter "like hundreds of butterflies" overhead. She makes clear the agonizing choices that split Vietnamese families: her eldest sister left her staunchly anti-communist home to join the Viet Minh, and spent months sleeping in jungle camps with her infant son, fearing air raids by day and tigers by night. And she follows several family members through the last, desperate hours of the fall of Saigon--including one nephew who tried to escape by grabbing the skid of a departing American helicopter. Based on family papers, dozens of interviews, and a wealth of other research, this is not only a memorable family saga but a record of how the Vietnamese themselves have experienced their times"--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxx, 455 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- A burial in the night
- Shut gate and high walls
- The silk merchant
- French veneer, Confucian soul
- Taxes, floods, and robbers
- The third month in the year of the famine
- The head on the roof
- Into the resistance zone
- Poison and bribes
- The fall of a border garrison
- Sifting through the rubble
- The new Mecca
- Just cause
- Short peace, long war
- Flying into the unknown
- The spoils of victory
- The hours of gold and jade
- Epilogue : across the four seas
- Isbn
- 9780190614515
- Label
- The sacred willow : four generations in the life of a Vietnamese family
- Title
- The sacred willow
- Title remainder
- four generations in the life of a Vietnamese family
- Statement of responsibility
- Mai Elliott
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural poverty to become an influential landowner, and continuing to the present, Mai Elliott traces her family's journey through an era of tumultuous change. She tells us of childhood hours in her grandmother's silk shop, and of hiding while French troops torched her village, watching while blossoms torn by fire from the trees flutter "like hundreds of butterflies" overhead. She makes clear the agonizing choices that split Vietnamese families: her eldest sister left her staunchly anti-communist home to join the Viet Minh, and spent months sleeping in jungle camps with her infant son, fearing air raids by day and tigers by night. And she follows several family members through the last, desperate hours of the fall of Saigon--including one nephew who tried to escape by grabbing the skid of a departing American helicopter. Based on family papers, dozens of interviews, and a wealth of other research, this is not only a memorable family saga but a record of how the Vietnamese themselves have experienced their times"--Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- NIC/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1941-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Elliott, Duong Van Mai
- Dewey number
- 959.704
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DS556.8
- LC item number
- .E44 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Elliott, Duong Van Mai
- Duong family
- Vietnam
- Vietnam
- Vân Đình (Vietnam)
- Vietnam
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The sacred willow : four generations in the life of a Vietnamese family, Mai Elliott
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-432) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- cri
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A burial in the night -- Shut gate and high walls -- The silk merchant -- French veneer, Confucian soul -- Taxes, floods, and robbers -- The third month in the year of the famine -- The head on the roof -- Into the resistance zone -- Poison and bribes -- The fall of a border garrison -- Sifting through the rubble -- The new Mecca -- Just cause -- Short peace, long war -- Flying into the unknown -- The spoils of victory -- The hours of gold and jade -- Epilogue : across the four seas
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xxx, 455 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780190614515
- Lccn
- 2017017675
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps, portraits, genealogical table
- System control number
-
- 983786077
- (OCoLC)983786077
- Label
- The sacred willow : four generations in the life of a Vietnamese family, Mai Elliott
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-432) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- cri
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A burial in the night -- Shut gate and high walls -- The silk merchant -- French veneer, Confucian soul -- Taxes, floods, and robbers -- The third month in the year of the famine -- The head on the roof -- Into the resistance zone -- Poison and bribes -- The fall of a border garrison -- Sifting through the rubble -- The new Mecca -- Just cause -- Short peace, long war -- Flying into the unknown -- The spoils of victory -- The hours of gold and jade -- Epilogue : across the four seas
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xxx, 455 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780190614515
- Lccn
- 2017017675
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps, portraits, genealogical table
- System control number
-
- 983786077
- (OCoLC)983786077
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