Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
"Flowers from Foreign Land" is the saga of a Vietnamese family, the PHAN family, who, in a century and a half and over six generations, had witnessed the dark events imposed on their country by people from foreign land.
The book is available at FNAC https: //livre.fnac.com/a10277578/Jean-Tu-Tri-Les-fleurs-de-l-etranger as well as another book written in French by the same author.
- It is possible to consider this work both as a novel and as a history textbook. Through his original writing, the author introduced historical events through the everyday life activities of the novel characters to make the plot more engaging and lively. It is a pretext for him to study the social ebbs and flows of a Third World country throughout different historical circumstances from colonization to decolonization and civil war. This book provides an overview of the evolution of a human society in its geopolitical, sociological, political, economic and social context.