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Escape from communist heaven

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Language
English
Published
2013
  • Communism
  • Labor camps
  • Survival
  • Juvenile fiction
  • History
  • Family life
  • Fiction

The communist takeover of South Vietnam in 1975 is very hard for Viet Nguyen, fourteen, and his family but when Viet foolishly tries to speed up their plans to escape he is arrested and sentenced to the harsh life of a labor camp in the jungle.