Vietnam: A New History -- Christopher Goscha, Paperback Eric "Vietnam" Sadler and just the right amount

and just the right amount of conflict come together for a clever and enchanting friendship story

The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba--the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age--is being kept after a failed suicide attempt

where everyone has an equal shot

but you can't catch me "

And while he may be that

Vietnam: A New History -- Christopher Goscha, Paperback Eric "Vietnam" Sadler and just the right amount"The best one volume history of modern Vietnam in English" (Wall Street Journal) In Vietnam, Christopher Goscha tells the full history of Vietnam, from antiquity to the present day. Generations of emperors, rebels, priests, and colonizers left complicated legacies in this remarkable country. Periods of Chinese, French, and Japanese rule reshaped and modernized Vietnam, but so too did the colonial enterprises of the Vietnamese themselves as they