ABOUT "THE FALL OF VIETNAM TRILOGY" BY UYEN NICOLE DUONG & CONSUMER INTERNET REVIEWS OF "POSTCARDS FROM NAM"

Commentaries on
The “Fall of South Vietnam” trilogy 

published by AmazonEncore (2011) 

About “Daughters of the River Huong”:

“A touching novel – not only does it delve into the soul of the exile, of the marginal and marginalized, with its conflicts of identity and search for self, but also, paradoxically, elicitation of the unspoken, indeed of the unspeakable, where ve’cu and non-ve’cu blend to create a wonderful journey through a sensitive and beautiful, insatiable, admirable, brilliant, thoughtful yet troubled mind…I gladly learned that the novel was used for Vietnamese studies at Yale…” Professor Andrew Lian, Vice-President of AsiaCall, Chair, Department of Foreign Languages, Western Illinois University

“…I contacted Dr. Sandra Cate, a lecturer in anthropology at San Jose State University, who assigns the novel in her seminar on Vietnam. Dr. Cate regards the novel, which considers millennia of Vietnamese history from the point of view of women, an important contribution to the literature of the Vietnamese Diaspora…Her novel explores tensions of Vietnamese history, the French colonial experience, and the contemporary practice of law both the United States and internationally…” Law professor and historian Thomas Russell, J.D, Ph.D., Stanford University

About “Mimi and Her Mirror”: 

“… a powerful saga from a writer of talent giving voice to people from one of the most successful immigrant communities in American history. This is a book that should be read…” …
“…I admire her expansive knowledge and her intellectual courage and skill to wed such seemingly diverse disciplines as law and art…” Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer-prize winner novelist and Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor, Department of English, Florida State University

"Duong writes with a delicate sensuality that allows her readers to inhabit the skin of her characters. Her story makes us reconsider the subtle forces that shaped US-Vietnamese history." Columbia journalism professor June Cross, Emmy winning-journalist and author of Secret Daughter (Penguin).

About “Postcards from Nam”:

A SURVEY OF INTERNET REVIEWS

“Postcards from Nam is an unusual book. It is a poem, it is a love letter, and it is a novel within the space of a novella. It is all these things and more.,, It does it with a spare beauty of words lined with tension usually only seen in poetry. I read this book in a single afternoon – unable to put it down.
If you know nothing about the plight of those immigrants fleeing Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia or Burma, read this book. If ever you have any questions about the necessity for helping immigrants to leave the land of their birth, the land of their torture, read this book. It won’t take long. It might change a life. Maybe even your own.” http://historicalnovelreview.blogspot.com/2011/11/postcards-from-name-by-uyen-nicole.html
“I would recommend Postcards from Nam for any reader who likes stories of unrequited love. But this tale is neither mushy nor trite. It will tear at your own heart as Mimi now hunts a grown man who always longed for her even during a pained troubled past. The story is short. No matter. It will fascinate you with its beauty, its simplicity and its unforgettable passion buried deep within the human heart.”

Regis Schilken, blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-postcards-from-nam-by/

“Mimi begins what will become a decade-long search for Nam. Her quest eventually leads her back to her childhood home in a small alley in pre-communist Saigon. For there she was beloved by a boy who dreamed of one day being an artist, a boy whose path diverged tragically from Mimi's when the Vietnam War ended in 1975.. Yet, as she digs deeper into Nam's painful past, Mimi uncovers an inspiring story of courage, survival, and the indomitable strength of the human spirit…”
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11747794-postcards-from-nam

“…Postcards from Nam, the new novella by Uyen Nicole Duong, is a gem, like the shard of a pearl found in the white sand, a rare find…Postcards is a heart wrenching story of tragic, unfulfilled love; but it also so much more--that shard of a broken pearl beautiful in its own right. At times told with frank detachment, other times with honest sincerity, it is truly a rare find…” 
“…Postcards from Nam is quietly intriguing story, a fascinating journey through memory, and a heartbreaking picture of human inhumanity and endurance—short, haunting and wonderful.”
“Although this novella was only 90 pages long, it delivered quite a punch. ..”

“This is a novella really at just 100 pages long, but every one of the pages contain words that really touch the heart….This is a beautifully crafted story.”

“The years of the war in Vietnam were wrenching even for those of us who witnessed it on the eveing news, at a remove. This deceptively slender novella packs more dynamite in its pages than others three times its length. ..”

“The tales of Boat People, those who remained in Vietnam, and those airlifted out by the Americans are heartrenching and truthful in their simplicity. This story is written as if the reader is watching the events unfold in real life, a so-called fly on the wall. And it really opened my eyes to the fate of the southern Vietnamese after the U.S. left, something not talked about, but needs to be.”
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11747794-postcards-from-nam#other_reviews

“This book arrived over a month ago and I should NOT have waited to read it. I loved it!...

The writing is simply chilling…

Run to read this lovely book!”
Goldberg McDuffie,
http://www.greatthoughts.com/2011/10/postcards-from-nam/.html
“A heart wrenching tale which transports readers to the war-torn alleys of Vietnam,POSTCARDS FROM NAM offers a portrait of a lost generation and is not to be missed.” 

http://dadofdivas-reviews.blogspot.com/2011/08/book-review-postcards-from-nam.html

“Extremely powerful and achingly beautiful, Postcards from Namis a testament to the human spirit's ability to survive and its need to persevere.”
http://literaryrr.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-postcards-from-nam-by-uyen.html

“Postcards from Nam is a blunt, eyes-wide-open look at what it was like for first generation South Vietnamese refugees and their children to begin life in the country that had failed to stop the communist invaders from North Vietnam…

I have to say that this little 89-page novella makes for a powerful reading experience.”
bookchase.blogspot.com/2011/09/postcards-from-nam.html