In his acknowledgments at the end of his 2013 novel An Officer and a Spy, Robert Harris thanked his wife for sharing a home over the years with “successive waves of Nazis, codebreakers, KGB men, hedge ...
So Anh began recounting his early life through writing, dredging up suppressed memories. The book begins in 1953, the last year Vietnam was under French colonization. His mother tells Anh that his ...