As the Heart Bones Break

By Audrey Chin

In Thong Tran's Vietnam, everyone is at war and no one is who they seem--not his adopted father, a French civil servant, not his Blood Father, the Viet Cong rooster master, not his pro-American journalist tutor. Like them, the boy from the Mekong Delta cannot escape the war. And like them, he too must create shades of himself to survive.But even a conflicted heart needs a home. Thong yearns for a true father and a cause to give himself to. He chooses independence, liberty and happiness--his tutor and the Viet Cong. Tragically, there's no independence, liberty or happiness at war's end. Re-invented as an American aerospace engineer, husband and father--the Viet Cong informer must spend another half a lifetime crossing the Pacific as a defense industry dealmaker before he can set down the bones rankling in his heart.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9814484075
• ISBN13: 9789814484077
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 7.8"