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Finalist (Travel Category) , 2019 San Diego Book AwardsFormer Amazon #1 New Release in Vietnam Travel Guides5-Star Rating from Amazon Hall-of-Fame Top Reviewer Have you ever wondered what Vietnam is like some forty years after the war has ended? Then come along with the author as he returns to visit his ancestral homeland for the first time after a decades-long absence. Retrace his steps with him around his former hometown of Saigon in the south, and then follow him along on an itinerary of discovery to other unique destinations throughout the country: Hoi-An, the best-preserved medieval seaport in Southeast Asia; Hue, the ancient capital of imperial Vietnam, on the central coast; Halong Bay, a world-renowned natural wonder; and Hanoi, the countrys thousand-year-old capital, in the north.Filled with historical and cultural tidbits and personal reminiscences, and illustrated with over forty photographs, Rain Falling on Tamarind Trees offers the reader an insightful and fascinating glimpse of this tropical land.
About the Author
Author of:C. L. Hoang was born and raised in Viet Nam during the war and came to the United States in the 1970s. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and earns his living as an electronic engineer, with eleven patents to his name. Books, history, and travel are his hobbies. His first book, "Once upon a Mulberry Field," is an award-winning novel set in Viet Nam at the height of the war. It is followed by "Rain Falling on Tamarind Trees," the travelogue of his 2016 return trip to the ancestral homeland and a former Amazon #1 New Release in Vietnam Travel Guides. His newly released (October 2020) book is titled "In the Shadow of Green Bamboos," a collection of remarkable tales of love and hope, resilience and survival, from the Vietnam War. A recent Amazon #1 New Release in Vietnam War History, the book has won the 2020 Best Indie Book Award in the Short Story category. "Once upon a Mulberry Field" won the Bronze Medal for Cultural Fiction in the 2015 Readers' Favorite Book Award and received Honorable Mentions for Fiction in the 2015 Eric Hoffer Literary Award and in the Writer's Digest 22nd Annual Book Awards (2014) . The book is also the Gold Medal Winner of the 2014 Global Ebook Awards (Historical Literature Fiction) , as well as the Fiction Grand Prize Winner of the 2014 LuckyCinda Book Contest, and a Finalist in the 2014 National Indie Excellence Book Awards (Historical Fiction) .
