WAR CHILD: A STORY OF SURVIVAL
Book ID/图书代码： 08430007B16671
English Summary/英文概要： Am I unlucky because of the terrible things that happened to me as a child, or am I Lucky because of the life I lead now? I hardly know myself. All I can tell you is that no sane person would ever choose war over peace. War is inhuman madness. War is what people do to each other when they have completely forgotten the sacredness of life.
In 1978, Juliet Lac fled war-ravaged Vietnam in a fishing boat, desperately hoping to find freedom in America. But born under the sign of the vengeful water god Thuy Tinh, she was to face his wrath as the small, overloaded boat sank off the coast of Malaysia. Over half of the 350 passengers sere drowned, but miraculously Juliet escaped, eventually making her way to the US to begin her new life.
Aged only 11, Juliet had witnessed at first hand the barbarity of war, and after the death of her father and her younger sister, she and her mother were left to struggle on in poverty, they faced a struggle to integrate into American society.
This is a remarkable and inspirational story of a war child’s fight first for survival in the devastated landscape of Vietnam and then for acceptance in the affluent West.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 好不容易逃離家鄉，卻眼睜睜看著身邊親友同胞超過三百五十人悲慘溺斃在異域的惡海…一個小女孩載浮載沉的抵達所有人夢想的自由國度，是幸運也是不幸，另一陣迎面襲來的波濤，是無情的種族歧視，難以想像的貧富差距，以及年幼的她，如何與寡母在毫不熟悉的社會環境裡，摸索掙扎求生存的過程。
除了感人的故事之外，台灣的越南女性，與生活在美國的越南族群，無論是人生觀與生活方式都有許多不同，值得對照細讀。（TT）
Awards/获奖情况：A gripping personal account that takes in sights, smells and emotions . . . [Lac] writes with poetry, passion, pace and self-knowledge---Daily Telegraph
An admirable story of courage and success---Independent on Sunday
About the Author/作者介绍： Juliet Lac was born in Vietnam in 1967, raised in California and moved to paris with her family in 1996. While there she launched the Paris Woman journal, www.pariswoman.com, a website for English - speaking expatriate women living in Paris. Now back living in California, Juliet is currently working on her second book.
JULIET LAC一九六七年出生在越南，十一歲時搭乘漁船逃往美國，途經馬來西亞海域翻覆，數百人罹難，她幸運獲救，到了美國。JULIET LAC在加州長大，一九九六年時赴法國 巴黎，並且活躍於一個替外來移民女性發聲的網站，販售自製商品，從事設計工作。現在她返回美國加州定居，正在寫作她的第二本書。《WAR CHILD》是JULIET LAC的第一本作品，由於觀點與敘事方式獨特，頗受歡迎，明年一月計劃推出新版封面的平裝本。
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