“Visitors”

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction ix
5. A Note on Language xxix
6. Part One: Tales of Witness
7. Fallen Leaves 3
8. Shallow Graves 12
9. Twenty Years and Twenty Days 20
10. A Thousand Tears Falling 28
11. A Vietcong Memoir 36
12. “Electioneering: Vietnamese Style” 41
13. No Passenger on the River 48
14. Our Endless War: Inside Vietnam 61
15. In the Jaws of History 65
16. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places 72
17. The Sacred Willow 95
18. At Home in America 106
19. South Wind Changing 113
20. The Unwanted 120
21. “The Stories They Carried” 127
22. Catfish and Mandala 133
23. Part Two: Tales of Imagination
24. Beyond the East Wind 141
25. The Little Weaver of Thái-Yên Village 149
26. The Land I Lost 154
27. Miles from Home 161
28. Monkey Bridge 166
29. placing the accents 183
30. “Georgia Red Dirt” 187
31. Song of the Cicadas 193
32. In the Mynah Bird’s Own Words 197
33. The Book of Salt 202
34. “the gangster we are all looking for” 207
35. All Around What Empties Out 215
36. “Visitors” 217
37. Breaking the Map 230
38. Living Dead in Denmark 235
39. “It Was His Story” 247
40. Permissions 249