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Such A Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-1963 by David Homel (Paperback, 2016)

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Title: Such A Lovely Little War. Format: Paperback. Missing Information?. Item Length: 170mm. Release Date: 17/11/2016. Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press. Genre: Graphic Novels. Country/Region of Manufacture: CA.

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This riveting, beautifully produced graphic memoir tells the story of the early years of the Vietnam war as seen through the eyes of a young boy named Marco, the son of a Vietnamese diplomat and his French wife. The book opens in America, where the boy's father works for the South Vietnam embassy; there the boy is made to feel self-conscious about his otherness thanks to schoolmates who play war games against the so-called Commies. The family is called back to Saigon in 1961, where the father becomes Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem's personal interpreter; as the growing conflict between North and South intensifies, so does turmoil within Marco's family, as his mother struggles to grapple with bipolar disorder. Visually powerful and emotionally potent, Such a Lovely Little War is both a large-scale and intimate study of the Vietnam war as seen through the eyes of the Vietnamese: a turbulent national history interwined with an equally traumatic familial one. Through the stark immediacy of the graphic memoir, Truong captures the child's perspective of daily life in a war zone. -Sydney Morning Herald Read the full review here.