Thanh The Le

Bamboo Bridge Thanh The Le

Equipped with nothing more than a Vietnamese-to-English dictionary, Thanh The Le originally completed this book in 1982 during his time in Montgomery, Alabama. With a special foreword from Thanh's ESL Teacher, Delores Freeman Cork, "In journal-style, Bamboo Bridge tells about a young, single, school teacher who was tortured for attempting to deny Communist influence upon his students. He loved his homeland, his profession, his friends, and family greatly. Yet he left all to endure numerous near-death encounters with adversity to ultimately arrive in a land of freedom."