Granta 15

The Fall Of Saigon

By:

William Boyd

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing

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Ten years ago, James Fenton went to Saigon, having made up his mind that, no matter what happened, he was not going to miss what he had travelled 10,000 miles to see: a Communist victory. And so he remained, long after the US troops and most members of the western press had been evacuated. He remained for, and even participated in, the looting of the US Embassy. And when the first North Vietnamese tank entered the city, lost, unable to make its way through Saigon's maze of streets, James Fenton jumped on the back, an unlikely navigator, directing the tank commander to the Presidential Palace. And still Fenton remained, until three months later, without food or money or clothes, wandering around a city transformed, he finally made his way back home. Witty, bizarre, and verging on the lunatic - who in his right mind would hop on the back of an invading army's tank? - James Fenton's account of the fall of Saigon is an extraordinary and historically important record of the collapse of a city at war.

Release date NZ

January 7th, 2008

Author

William Boyd

Series

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing

Pages

252

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Dimensions

149x210x16

ISBN-13

9780140075816

Product ID

27863121

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