Come see Christopher's Random Review!
Here’s a plug for one of our second floor librarians. If you have a free lunch hour (12pm – 1pm) next Wednesday, May 13th, come to the Main Meeting Room in the Corvallis library.
Christopher will be doing this month’s Random Review. He’s going to be talking about Andrew Pham’s book The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars. Pham tells the story of his father, who lived through the French occupation of Vietnam, the Japanese invasion in World War II, and the Vietnam War. This book blends together the history of a country with a family history.
From a review in the Washington Post:
By the story’s end, Thong [Pham's father] has witnessed cruelty, waste and government corruption, and has endured prison, torture, and the deaths and humiliations of one friend after another. All he has left are the things inside him: the books he’s read, the memories of the people he loves and hopes to see again, the strength and wisdom he’s gained from deprivation. He has lost everything, and yet so much remains.
Posted by Lisa, a second floor librarian
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