TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morrissey,Di
TI  - Monsoon
SN  - 9781405038188 (pbk.) :
AV  - PR9619.3.M68905 M66 2007
U1  - A823.3 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Sydney
PB  - Pan Macmillan
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Long Tan, Battle of, Vietnam, 1966
KW  - Volunteers
KW  - Vietnam
KW  - Novel
KW  - English
KW  - Australia
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Texts
KW  - Australians
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Families
KW  - Travel
KW  - Veterans
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - fast
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - gsafd
N2  - 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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