Saigon Calling: London 1963-75 by Marcelino TruongMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This graphic novel is the continuation to Marceline Truong's experience during the Vietnam War. The author and his parents were really fortunate that they lived in London while Vietnam was still at war.
Despite that they were away from their homeland, they were still affected by the news that they received not only from the media, but from their relatives and friends they left in Vietnam.
This second volume of Truong's graphic novel cited a comprehensive details about the latter years of the war. I remember watching a local documentary about the Vietnamese boat people who were helped by our country, and the government chose to settled them in the Palawan Island during that time. There were some Vietnamese who chose to remained here even after the war; while others migrated to other countries such as Canada, Europe and in U.S.
After the so-called liberation, there were reeducation or concentration camps in Vietnam that were hidden from the West, or from the big and influential countries such as the U.S, and from the media. I never knew about this before, but because of this graphic novel, I learnt that Vietnam was still not fully liberated then and that it took several more years before it happened.
