Ovid Dullann works as an assistant accountant for a multinational corporation and is supporting a family of four; but abruptly, on his forty-ninth birthday, Ovid runs away from his daily work and his loving family to go on a road trip. Struck by inspiration, Ovid knows that an Author is writing about him, and will do anything to avoid acting as a protagonist of a book. But this Author will not abandon his pursuit, and vows to punish Ovid, his wayward protagonist.

Roundabout: An Improvisational Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Nguyen, Phong

Literary

Moon City Press

From Rice Paddies and Temple Yards : Traditional Music of Vietnam

Arts & Photography

Music

World Music Pr

collection of traditional Vietnamese songs

From Rice Paddies and Temple Yards: Traditional Music of Viet Nam

From Rice Paddies and Temple Yards: Traditional Music of Viet Nam (Book & CD) by Phong Nguyen (2002-07-03)

World Music Press

Father Mountain & Mother Sea: Living Musical Traditions of Vietnam

White Cliffs Media Co

Unlike all movies that have been made involving the Himalayas-the planet's highest and home to the world's highest peaks including Mount Everest and K2 [Chogo Gangri]-and all books that have been written about Asian countries located around this mountain ranges, Lotus on the Snow (LOTS) by Nguyen Phong has its unique characteristics. It does not take the readers' breath away because of the magnificence of the Himalayan Ranges, but it makes the readers hold their breath because of the affection that these mountains compel in them. LOTS does not intentionally call for the readers' sympathies or trigger enragements with accounts of arrest, trial, torture, and crucifixion as the highest grossing The Passion of the Christ does, but the readers unconditionally give it their wholehearted sincerity, trustworthiness, and admiration. It naturally fills the readers' heart with genuine compassion and soothes the readers' soul with mind-blowing conversations. Most characters in LOTS make the readers keenly ponder about human beings and wonder about life. Most prominently, they distinctively touch the readers' heart in an indescribable way. A wealthy, successful Chicagoan physician took a journey to Dharamsala-the quaint Indian hill headquarters of the Dalai Lama in exile-after he experienced a series of catastrophes. What he actually heard, physically witnessed, and consciously realized after the journey gave him an amazingly different perspective that very few beings can perceive in life. LOTS is not only an inspirational story for those who are drowning in their professional and material successes but also a motivational account for those who are searching for spiritual salvation. Thought-provoking nature of characters and their relationships have made LOTS appear to be enthralling for most professions. The lessons drawn from this book are valuable accumulations of personal experience that neither power nor money nor fame can buy. The actual costs are the direct practices.

Lotus on the Snow

Leace, Poven

Nomine, Sine

Vo, Anthony

Ruthandest, Thony

Religion & Spirituality

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Review\n“When Beyoncé asked, ‘Who run the world?’ was she thinking about the legendary Trung sisters? The sisters have long been revered as national icons in Vietnam, and this fictionalized account of their rise to military greatness . . . reminds us that the power of women is nothing new.”―Kirkus Reviews\n"Bronze Drum lured me in. It's a richly spun, deftly written tale of bravery, legend, and resistance--a compelling read."―Amina Gautier, author of At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy, and The Loss of All Lost Things\n"Riveting and brilliantly-crafted, Bronze Drum brings to life the story of The Trung Sisters—two fearless revolutionaries who led an army of Viet women in defeating the Han Chinese some 2000 years ago. Though their hard-fought independence was short-lived and often mythologized, Phong Nguyen crystalizes the sisters' lasting legacy in this epic retelling. A novel that evokes ancestral memory to witness and excavate that which must never be forgotten."―Natalia Sylvester, author of Everyone Knows You Go Home\n“The story of the Trung sisters spans the tricky midrange between fact and myth, and Phong Nguyen’s ingenious retelling succeeds both as transportive adventure and as something more ambitious, recalling the work of fabulists like Italo Calvino and Angela Carter. The Bronze Drum is dreamlike and absorbing, epic and humane—a vivid evocation of histories that pass invisibly, whispered in ears across centuries, shifting with the times, finally bursting back into the light.”―Martin Seay, author of THE MIRROR THIEF\n"’Girl Power’ may have originated with the Trung sisters who fought for Vietnamese independence in 40 CE. Phong Nguyen enlivens this historical moment in BRONZE DRUM, a sweeping and imaginative account of their efforts to form an army of women to fight for and preserve their freedom. This fast-paced novel features palace intrigue, sex, deception, scholarship, bravery, love, honor, magic and power. Nguyen has the rare ability to render events that happened long ago in a way that fells contemporary and even timely. I'm in awe of his storytelling powers and was captivated from the first page to the last.”―Christina Clancy, author of THE SECOND HOME and THE SHOULDER SEASON\n"As groundbreaking as it is gripping, Phong Nguyen's BRONZE DRUM is filled with impeccably researched, vivid storytelling that blends history and myth in spellbinding ways. A masterful first novel--and an important one." ―Liam Callanan, author of THE CLOUD ATLAS and PARIS BY THE BOOK\n“Phong Nguyen’s novel Bronze Drum is part epic history, part romantic drama, and all mastery. The novel recounts the Vietnamese people’s astonishing 40 CE rebellion against their Han occupiers, led by the legendary Trung sisters and their female army. If you’re like me, you’ll devour this joyous, defiant novel while cheering for the Trungs and wishing their magnificent, feminist army could lead a rebellion here, today.”―Whitney Terrell, author of The Good Lieutenant\n"Through lush prose and sharp imagery, Phong Nguyen introduces readers to the complete story of the Trung Sisters. Bronze Drum is a remarkable novel of these two women's fierceness and heartbreak, their rebellion forming a foundation of Vietnamese history, freedom and independence that Nguyen brings vividly to life on the page. This book is essential reading." ―Anne Valente, author of The Desert Sky Before Us and Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down\n“Nguyen brings the near-mythical figures of the Trung sisters to full-blooded life in this sweeping historical narrative... Gripping historical adventure.”―Booklist\nA “gripping historical adventure” of ancient Vietnam based on the true story of two warrior sisters who raised an army of women to overthrow the Han Chinese and rule as kings over a united people, for readers of Circe and The Night Tiger (Booklist).\nGather around, children of Chu Dien, and be brave. 
For even to listen to the story of the Trung Sisters is, 
in these troubled time

Bronze Drum

Genre Fiction

Grand Central Publishing

Under no circumstances will we be capable of constructing a pyramid as the Egyptians did thousands of years ago. Not only did such a glorious civilization utterly vanish but its unequivocal disappearance also authenticated the universal law “Whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap”. Regardless of how giant science has made its leap since that time, it completely fails to substantiate trustworthy facts. So, what are the possible explanations? Although the majority of Westerners have refused to recognize the Eastern philosophies—causality, reincarnation and karma—up to the 19th century, it has not escaped their notice that many true masters from the Far East are supporting and directing humans to their predestined destiny. By witnessing miraculous performances, perceiving amazing phenomena, and absorbing enthralled conversations bestowed upon by those Eastern masters, Spalding eloquently explained and effectively launched spiritual and intellectual knowledge to the Western world in his Journey to the East. Baird Spalding’s account of his journey to the Far East in 1894 offered the Western world a number of innovative resolutions that conceptually yet conventionally transcend spiritual and intellectual knowledge paradigm.

Journey to the East 2

Nguyen, An Nhon

Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History

Fiction. At critical moments in world history, every political, spiritual, and cultural leader foresaw a different destiny. Columbus planned a Western sea route to Asia; Hitler applied to art school twice; Joan of Arc prophesied that she would become a mother. It is out of their failures that history itself is made. But what if the history-makers succeeded in the fulfillment of their best-laid plans? In PAGES FROM THE TEXTBOOK OF ALTERNATE HISTORY, Phong Nguyen explores a myriad of pasts in which these icons of history made a different choice, and got what they wished for.

Pages From The Textbook Of Alternate History

Mastodon Publishing

Fiction. Asian American Studies. At critical moments in world history, every political, spiritual, and cultural leader foresaw a different destiny. Columbus planned a Western sea route to Asia; Hitler applied to art school twice; Joan of Arc prophesied that she would become a mother. It is out of their failures that history itself is made. But what if the history-makers succeeded in the fulfillment of their best-laid plans? In PAGES FROM THE TEXTBOOK OF ALTERNATE HISTORY, Phong Nguyen explores a myriad of pasts in which these icons of history made a different choice, and got what they wished for.

Contemporary

Queen's Ferry Press

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