A tortured tale of flight at the end of the Vietnam war – Book Review by Tom Glenn
Bloodstained Sea is a novel about the escape from South Vietnam of those fleeing the North Vietnamese communists who completed the conquest of Vietnam on 30 April 1975. The author, Chau Thuy, lived through that exodus of hundreds of thousands of people. As many as 250,000 died at sea. Some 130,000 eventually made it to…