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Discover dragonfish as its meant to be heard, narrated by tom taylorson, nancy wu. Vu tran was born in saigon in 1975, five months after the city fell to the north vietnamese and five months after his father, a captain in the south vietnamese air force, was forced to flee the country. Dragonfish albuquerque bernalillo county library system. Download dragonfish a novel book for free in pdf, epub. It is robert, a cop in oakland, california, who narrates much of the story, reliving his years spent with a wife he barely. Fond of dark places, it is a fitting metaphor for many of the morally complex characters in the story, even if, ironically, in sin city, luck forever eludes them and evil lurks around every corner. Robert, a rugged oakland cop, still cant let go of suzy, the mysterious vietnamese wife who left him.
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