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started reading Faraway the Southern Sky by Joseph Andras

Joseph Andras, Simon Leser: Faraway the Southern Sky (2024, Verso Books) 4 stars

Fleeing persecution in Indochina, the young Ho Chi Minh arrived in Paris as World War …

The author looks for traces of the young Ho Chi Minh in Paris, where he'd spent much of his twenties. But the past of the eventual leader of Vietnamese communism seemed largely invisible. Still, the author makes the search interesting. A short read.