end. His graduation from university presumed as the beginning in 1970,
and the end is in 2000.
Kien may eyewitness; interfere into many incidents in his camp. Before
that, he was with Vietnam War and its termination. He also witnesses the
Sino-Vietnamese border war. Especially along the fleeing to Hong Kong,
Kien survived among the death at sea.
A woman who gets along with Kien’s daily attention and spirit is An. She
loves him affectionately and keeps loyal to him. She struggles persistently
and wisely for her own life. She is alive because having no reason to die,
but whoever reads this book may imagine how perishable and pitiful she is.
Ha-Day is a couple of happiness; the locales look up that family as a
dream in reality. The death of Ha that unexpectedly happens drives Day to
leave his homeland. Unlike many deaths at sea, Day’s death is recognized
as another characteristic of humanity.
On the construction site, who saves a colleague to die is Minh. His death is
full of grief but not heroic like other, nevertheless it left behind a happy
family and an endless memory in his sisters, brother and colleagues.
Ut Thuong, like Kien, is a person who gets along with many important
historic events of Vietnam. He is a lovesick marine soldier. Two times, he
holds his dead lovers in arms, and at last, he cannot comfort himself to
overcome the tense impact in him. Ngoc Lan, the first love to Ut Thuong,
was shot dead while the Vietnamese territory police running after their boat
at sea, she was dead on board a boat. Ngan is a baby girl in the camp
despite her age is over 20, Thuong loves her as much as his first love in
life, he evacuates her while her camp in burn, but she cannot prolong her
