Dana Sachs

The House on Dream Street

Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam

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A vividly detailed memoir of traveling to the formerly forbidden country and exploring life and culture in Hanoi (Kirkus Reviews). For years after the Vietnam War, Americans were unable to visit the country, so once tourist visas became available, young Dana Sachs eagerly applied. Born in the early 1960s, she had little memory of the war and its history, but yearned to know more about this Southeast Asian nation, with its odd mix of capitalism and communism and its streets crowded with bicycles. In this unusual travel memoir, she recounts arriving as a backpacker in the late 1980s; moving in with a family and earning her keep by teaching En… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-56512-872-9
EAN: 9781565128729
Produktnummer: 31908888
Verlag: Algonquin Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 368 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'456 KB

Über den Autor

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Dana Sachs is a freelance journalist who has written for a number of magazines and newspapers, including Mother Jones, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Philadelpia Inquirer. She has translated Vietnamese novels into English and codirected the award-winning documentary about Vietnam Which Way Is East. A graduate of Wesleyan University and the MFA program at UNC-W, she teaches journalism and Vietnamese literature courses at UNC-W and lives with her husband and son in Wilmington, North Carolina.