The sacred willow : four generations in the life of a Vietnamese family (Record no. 27576)
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| fixed length control field | 02288cam a22001698i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780190614515 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 959.704 |
| Item number | ELL/SA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Elliott, Mai |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The sacred willow : four generations in the life of a Vietnamese family |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Second edition. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York |
| Name of publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year of publication | 1999 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 455 pages cm |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | A burial in the night -- Shut gate and high walls -- The silk merchant -- French veneer, Confucian soul -- Taxes, floods, and robbers -- The third month in the year of the famine -- The head on the roof -- Into the resistance zone -- Poison and bribes -- The fall of a border garrison -- Sifting through the rubble -- The new Mecca -- Just cause -- Short peace, long war -- Flying into the unknown -- The spoils of victory -- The hours of gold and jade -- Epilogue : across the four seas. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural poverty to become an influential landowner, and continuing to the present, Mai Elliott traces her family's journey through an era of tumultuous change. She tells us of childhood hours in her grandmother's silk shop, and of hiding while French troops torched her village, watching while blossoms torn by fire from the trees flutter "like hundreds of butterflies" overhead. She makes clear the agonizing choices that split Vietnamese families: her eldest sister left her staunchly anti-communist home to join the Viet Minh, and spent months sleeping in jungle camps with her infant son, fearing air raids by day and tigers by night. And she follows several family members through the last, desperate hours of the fall of Saigon--including one nephew who tried to escape by grabbing the skid of a departing American helicopter. Based on family papers, dozens of interviews, and a wealth of other research, this is not only a memorable family saga but a record of how the Vietnamese themselves have experienced their times"-- |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Elliott, Duong Van Mai, -- 1941- -- Family. Duong family. Elliott, Duong Van Mai, -- 1941- -- Famille. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Fiction | KUFOS Central Library | KUFOS Central Library | General Stacks | 03/05/2019 | 959.704 ELL/SA | 19288 | Books |