Leave the Land You Love: Love the Land Where You Live

ISBN-10: 1477274057
ISBN-13: 9781477274057
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Pages: 329
Language: English
Published: 2013-05-14
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Author: DO AN DUC TRI

Description

A remarkable story of survival and of a risky escape out of the iron curtain to the open world, with poetic brilliance, the Leave The Land You Love, Love The Land You Live is really a memoir that will never steal away from your mind and heart. Leaving the Vietnam fatherland he loves, the former home-arrested resident of Danang lingered as a boat people refugee in Hong Kong transit centers for 15 months. The author finally settles down as an information technology senior engineer in Baltimore, Maryland to love the new land he lives in.

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