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March 2018
Book Club – March 2018
FVH Book Club meets on the first Thursday of every month. If you are interested in attending please email Kirstin mckiekirstin@gmail.com or Piu lahiri.piu@gmail.com Books will focus on Vietnamese authors, Vietnamese culture, history, novels etc. Location: TBA Time: TBA Cost:
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Book club: Last Night I Dreamed of Peace
This is a Vietnamese focussed Book Club where we discuss books either written by Vietnamese authors or books based in Vietnam. We encourage women and men of all nationalities to join and be part of this evening book club that meets every first Thursday in a month. This activity is organised by Friends of Vietnam Heritage. The book we are discussing this month is Last Night I Dreamed of Peace a Diary of Dang Thuy Tram. She was a 24…
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Book club for June: The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
FVH BOOK CLUB GROUP For this month let’s recreate the same atmosphere as when the Quiet American was written in the 1950’s. Meet in the Bamboo Bar at the Sofitel Metropole (where part of the book was written so this is a very appropriate venue). One can actually order a Graham Greene martini ?, and discuss the travails of the war and the political storm raging during that time. Graham Greene was named, “ A master of storytelling “ by The…
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FVH BOOKCLUB GROUP – The Perfect Spy & The Sympathizer
FVH BOOK CLUB GROUP Our next Book Club meet will be on Thursday 13 September @ 7pm This time its a double whammy as we read and discuss two books . PERFECT SPY The Incredible Double Life Of Pham Xuan An By Larry Berman THE SYPMATHIZER By Viet Thanh Nguyễn (winner of Pulitzer Prize of 2016) Both books are about this same intriguing agent who led an enthralling double life of a Time Magazine Reporter and a Vietnamese Communist Agent. We will…
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FVH Bookclub – “Catfish & Mandala” by Andrew X. Pham
FVH Bookclub members For October the book we will be discussing is: Catfish & Mandala by Andrew X. Pham . It’s a two wheeled voyage through the landscape and memories of Vietnam. The New York Times Book Review states that it is: “ Remarkable...A trip so necessary and so noble that it makes others seem like mere jaunts or stunts“ meeting venue: Maison de Tet Decor, Villa 156 Tu Hoa, Nghi Tam (same side as the Sheraton) 7pm start To RSVP attendance…
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