Indochine

A sweeping saga of Vietnam, as exotic and turbulent as the land and the conflict it chronicles. An extraordinary young novelist has created a world—and a heroine—in the grand tradition! Bridging the decades from the corruption-rife era of the French occupation to the violent years of the American invasion, Indochine tells, with cinematic intensity, of a lush country exploited from within and without, and of the mysterious Saigon, an open city where crime is the only means to survival and love is a luxury too dangerous to afford. Its dazzling heroine is Nina, the proud and beautiful daughter…