Monsoon / Di Morrissey.
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TextPublisher: Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 2007Description: 453 p. : map ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781405038188 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction | Long Tan, Battle of, Vietnam, 1966 -- Fiction | Volunteers -- Vietnam -- Fiction | Novel -- English -- Australia -- 20th century -- Texts | Australians -- Vietnam -- Fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Travel -- Fiction | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Australia -- Fiction | Vietnam -- Description and travel -- Fiction | Vietnam | Vietnam -- FictionGenre/Form: Australian fiction | Domestic fiction. | Australian fiction | Fiction. DDC classification: A823.3 LOC classification: PR9619.3.M68905 | M66 2007Summary: Monsoon is a journey into the hearts and memories of those caught in a certain time in a particular place. Sandy Donaldson has been working for a volunteer organisation in Vietnam for the past four years. As her contract nears it end, she is reluctant to leave so she invites her oldest friend, Anna, to come for a holiday and discover its beautiful tourist destinations. Both girls have unexplored links to this country. Sandy's father is a Vietnam vet and Anna's mother was a Vietnamese boat person. During their travels, they meet Tom, an old Australian journalist who covered the war and plans to report on the fortieth anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan. It is Tom who tries to persuade Sandy's father to return to Long Tan and settle the ghosts that have haunted him for forty years, and suggests that Anna should delve into her mother's past. But the girls are reluctant, swept up in their own concerns, relationships, and a business deal that has the potential to go horribly wrong. However, it is the near-blind Buddhist nun living alone in the pagoda atop one of the karsts in Halong Bay who might hold the key.
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Monsoon is a journey into the hearts and memories of those caught in a certain time in a particular place. Sandy Donaldson has been working for a volunteer organisation in Vietnam for the past four years. As her contract nears it end, she is reluctant to leave so she invites her oldest friend, Anna, to come for a holiday and discover its beautiful tourist destinations. Both girls have unexplored links to this country. Sandy's father is a Vietnam vet and Anna's mother was a Vietnamese boat person. During their travels, they meet Tom, an old Australian journalist who covered the war and plans to report on the fortieth anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan. It is Tom who tries to persuade Sandy's father to return to Long Tan and settle the ghosts that have haunted him for forty years, and suggests that Anna should delve into her mother's past. But the girls are reluctant, swept up in their own concerns, relationships, and a business deal that has the potential to go horribly wrong. However, it is the near-blind Buddhist nun living alone in the pagoda atop one of the karsts in Halong Bay who might hold the key.
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