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Rain On The Red Flag - A Memoir by Frank Thanh Nguyen

- October 25, 2022

Buy or Gift Online. Click here to buy from Amazon Click here to buy from Google Play Click here to buy from Apple's iTunes Click here to buy from Barnes & Noble Click here to buy from ReaderHouse Semi Finalist, 2023 Memoir Category Nguyen's book is a thoroughly engaging story that draws readers in with tragedy, perseverance, and, ultimately, a type of reunification. The framing--starting the story with a heartbreaking plot point--sets the stage for an emotional and harrowing story that keeps readers riveted throughout. Public Reviews " Rain on the Red Flag is an immensely moving and absorbing memoir of one man’s journey to freedom and the high price both he and his family paid to get there. Highly engaging and thoroughly readable, it is superbly well-written and expertly paced. You can almost smell the smoke. Feel the wind and the rain. Hear the blare of Communist propaganda. Taste the salt air on the open sea...

RAIN ON THE RED FLAG - BOOK REVIEW BY REEDSY DISCOVERY

- January 19, 2023

Loved it! 😍 A compelling and absorbing memoir about one man's desperate journey to freedom after the fall of Saigon. No library should be without it. SYNOPSIS Tchaikovsky. A White Butterfly. The Memory of Love. For seventeen-year-old city boy Frank Thanh Nguyen, the official end of the war in Vietnam marked the end of his freedom and the beginning of a harrowing adventure. Rain on the Red Flag details Thanh's remarkable journey, which begins on the day the Communists planted their flag in homes along his street in Saigon. Thanh's only chance of survival was to escape. During several escape attempts Thanh discovered parts of his country and its people that weren't known to him before. Later, Thanh was captured by the undercover police. For four years, he was held in jails and labor camps, chained, and starved. Only his love for freedom, music, the memory of his girl, his family, and friendship with the other prisoners keeps him sane. When Thanh was finally set free an...

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- August 14, 2024

Sau khi bạn sống đủ lâu như một tù nhân, bạn sẽ coi trọng những điều rất khiêm tốn. Kẹo đường tan thành si-rô trên lưỡi khi bạn đói. Một nốt nhạc đã mất. Giai điệu của một bài thơ bị cấm. Thủy là người tôi yêu quý nhất trong suốt những năm qua. Thủy là tất cả những gì tôi trân quý, mong manh, thiêng liêng. Cô ấy cũng như tên của cô ấy—dòng nước thuần khiết cuốn trôi tôi, giải thoát tôi khỏi mọi tủi nhục mà tôi đã phải chịu đựng. Những khoảnh khắc nhóm chúng tôi tụ tập bên nhau quanh các quán cà phê vào ban đêm là một trong những khoảnh khắc quý giá nhất mà tôi từng biết. Dù đó là bí mật giữa chúng tôi, Thủy thích tôi hơn bất kỳ chàng trai nào khác. Nếu cuộc đời không thay đổi thì ký ức của tôi về Thủy có lẽ đã không quan trọng như vậy. Cô ấy sẽ chỉ là một cô gái mà tôi nghĩ là dễ thương và gặp trong một bữa tiệc. ***** Mặt trời như thiêu đốt trên lưng khi tôi cúi xuống, xẻ chiếc cuốc của mình vào những gốc cây cao đến đầu gối để phát quang cánh rừng. Tôi quay lại nhìn quả cầu lửa trên ...

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Frank Thanh Nguyen: Frank Thanh Nguyen was born in Dalat, South Vietnam, from a large family where his father and uncles all served in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He spent most of his childhood and high school years in Saigon while the Vietnam War raged through the country. After the fall of South Vietnam to the Communists in 1975, he spent the next two years trying to escape the new brutal regime. He got arrested and sent to several labor camps. In 1981, he was released and successfully escaped the country and reunited with his family in the US. He went to college and earned his master’s degree in computer science. He had since worked for many high-tech companies in the Silicon Valley, specializing in software development and leadership for more than thirty-five years. He is married and has two sons. Frank Nguyen has retired and spent much of his spare time writing books and music.

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