Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram

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“Remarkable. . . . A gift from a heroine who was killed at twenty-seven but whose voice has survived to remind us of the humanity and decency that endure amid–and despite–the horror and chaos of war.”
–Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine

Brutally honest and rich in detail, this posthumously published diary of a twenty-seven-year-old Vietcong woman doctor, saved from destruction by an American soldier, gives us fresh insight into the lives of those fighting on the other side of the Vietnam War. It is a story of the struggle for one’s ideals amid the despair and grief of war, but most of all, it is a story of hope in the most dire circumstances.

“As much a drama of feelings as a drama of war.”
–Seth Mydans, New York Times

“A book to be read by and included in any course on the literature of the war. . . . A major contribution.”
—Chicago Tribune

“An illuminating picture of what life was like among the enemy guerrillas, especially in the medical community.”
–The VVA Veteran, official publication of Vietnam Veterans of America
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Dang Thuy Tram
Published: 10/07/2008
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN: 9780307347381
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 0.59″ H x 7.88″ L x 5.24″ W

About the Author
DANG THUY TRAM was a Vietnamese doctor who volunteered at the age of twenty-four to work in a Vietcong battlefield hospital in the Quan Ngai province. In the two years she worked in the hospital before her death in 1970, she recorded all she saw and felt in the pages of her diary.

FRANCES FITZGERALD covered the Vietnam War for The New Yorker. Her resulting book, Fire in the Lake, received the Pulitzer Prize.

ANDREW X. PHAM is the author of the award-winning memoir Catfish and Mandala and The Eaves of Heaven.