The Afterlife of a Threadbare Jester is a haunting portrait of endurance and exile in the wake of the Vietnam War.
When a former intelligence officer is imprisoned in a communist reeducation camp, he must navigate years of forced labor, betrayal, and solitude. His attempts to escape lead only to deeper loss, and by the time he is released, his family has long fled to America, leaving him to confront the ruins of a life he no longer recognizes. At once brutal and poetic, this novel illuminates the quiet resilience of the human spirit and asks what remains when everything else has been stripped away.
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9781636284675
9781636284705
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Literature GeneralTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Half-Title Page
- Table of Contents
- CHAPTER 1 Cổng Trời, Heavenly Gate
- CHAPTER 2 Remembrance
- CHAPTER 3 Cổng Trời, Heavenly Gate
- CHAPTER 4 Cổng Trời, Heavenly Gate
- CHAPTER 5 A Place Near the Sea
- CHAPTER 6 Cổng Trời, Heavenly Gate
- CHAPTER 7 Sơn La
- CHAPTER 8 Sơn La
- CHAPTER 9 Sơn La
- CHAPTER 10 Sơn La
- CHAPTER 11 Sơn La
- CHAPTER 12 Hàm Tân
- CHAPTER 13 Hàm Tân
- Acknowledgments
- Biographical Note
- Back Cover
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