About this item
* Honorable Mention, Writer's Digest 22nd Annual Book Awards (2014) * Gold Medal Winner (Historical Literature Fiction) , 2014 Global Ebook Awards * Grand Prize Winner (Fiction) , 2014 LuckyCinda Book Contest * Finalist (Historical Fiction) , 2014 National Indie Excellence Book Awards * 5-Star Ratings from Amazon Hall-of-Fame Top Reviewers * As Roger Connors, a widower with no children, ponders whether to pursue aggressive treatment for his cancer, a cryptic note arrives from a long-lost USAF buddy announcing the visit of an acquaintance from Vietnam. The startling news resurrects ghosts of fallen comrades and haunting memories of the great love he once knew. Shocking revelations from his visitor uncover a missing part of Roger's life he never dreamed possible. Peeling back one layer at a time, he delves into a decades-old secret in search of answers and traces of a passion unfulfilled. From the jungles of Vietnam through the minefields of the heart, "Once upon a Mulberry Field" follows one man's journey to self-discovery, fraught with disillusionment and despair but ultimately redeemed by the power of love. This item is Non-Returnable.
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) .
