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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. THE LOTUS AND THE STORM transports us to wartime Saigon--a world of street vendors and tamarind trees, green rice fields and the strains of the Rolling Stones; American compounds, military police making their everyday wartime rounds, and torrents of rain cooling the earth. Two young girls, Mai and Khanh, revel in it all as their father, Minh, goes off to work as an army commander while their mother, Quy, brisk and beautiful in her silk ao dai, drives off to conduct the family's business with Chinese merchants.Four decades later in a Virginia suburb, the war is long over. Vietnam's flavors of clove and cinnamon have been recreated by a close-knit refugee community, but the lives of Minh and Mai, father and daughter, are haunted by ghosts, secrets, and the loss of their country. During the disastrous ending days, in a whirl of military signals and helicopter evacuations, Mai kept the memory of James, the American soldier who befriended her and her sister, close to her heart. But what happened to Cliff, the suave, handsome military advisor and family friend? And to Quy, the mother to whom Mai never had a chance to say goodbye? How will Mai cope with the trauma of war--episodes of blackened consciousness and lost time--and will the thay phap, a Vietnamese spirit exorcist, be able to heal her? THE LOTUS AND THE STORM is a passionate epic of love and war; an unmatched work of witness, inspiration, and courage, marking the welcome return of Lan Cao's singular voice, pitch-perfect, telling the story only she can tell.A lyrical novel of love and betrayal in the aftermath of the fall of Saigon-from the author of Monkey BridgeA singular work of witness, inspiration, and courage, The Lotus and the Storm marks the welcome return of Lan Cao's pitch-perfect voice, telling the story only she can tell.Four decades after the war, Vietnam's flavors of clove and cinnamon have been re-created by a close-knit refugee community in a Virginia suburb. But the lives of Minh and Mai, father and daughter, are haunted by ghosts, secrets, and the loss of their country. During the disastrous last days in Saigon, in a whirl of military signals and helicopter evacuations, Mai never had a chance to say goodbye to so many people who meant so much to her. What happened to them? How will Mai cope with the trauma of war-and will the thay phap, a Vietnamese spirit exorcist, be able to heal her? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780143127611
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