Rent The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars

Synopsis

Once wealthy landowners, Thong Van Pham's family was shattered by the tumultuous events of the twentieth century: the festering French occupation of Indochina, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the Vietnam War.

Told in dazzling chapters that alternate between events in the past and those closer to the present, The Eaves of Heaven brilliantly re-creates the trials of everyday life in Vietnam as endured by one man, from the fall of Hanoi and the collapse of French colonialism to the frenzied evacuation of Saigon. This is the story of a man caught in the maelstrom of 20th-century politics, a gripping memoir told with the urgency of a wartime dispatch by a writer of surpassing talent.

'Few books have combined the historical scope and the literary skill to give the foreign reader a sense of events from a Vietnamese perspective...Now we can add Andrew Pham's Eaves of Heaven to this list of indispensable books.' —New York Times Book Review

'A work of radiance...In some ways, it resembles that supreme recollection of a world lost to history's depredations, Speak, Memory…Vividly told.' —Los Angeles Times

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