Focus on The Distant Shores of Freedom: Vietnamese American Memoirs and Fiction

The poetic flavour suggested by the title of Professor Subarno Chattarji’s book – The Distant Shores of Freedom – announces, with finesse, serenity and expectant hope, the subtle complexity of individual, collective, and, more generally, the cultural integration in the United States of those who were to become Vietnamese Americans. Their writings are moving and powerful. Their testimonies make the readers reflect on the essence of life, the absurdity of wars but also on themselves, and on wha..