Duong Van Mai Elliott是一位越南作家、作家和翻译。她的回忆录《神圣的柳树》。一个越南家庭生活中的四代人》（牛津大学出版社），[1] 从一个越南家庭的角度讲述了越南战争的故事。她还在PBS关于冲突的18小时系列纪录片《越南战争》中出现过。
Duong Van Mai Elliott is a Vietnamese author, writer and translator. Her memoir, The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family (Oxford University Press),[1] tells the story of the Vietnam War from the perspective of a Vietnamese family. She was also featured in The Vietnam War, PBS's 18-hour documentary series on the conflict.
作为普利策奖的入围作品，Duong Van Mai Elliott的《神圣的柳树》通过将她家族四代人的生活故事编织在一起，照亮了越南近代史。从她的曾祖父开始，他从农村的贫困中崛起，成为一个有影响力的地主。
从她的曾祖父开始，他从农村的贫困中成长为有影响力的地主，一直到现在，Mai Elliott追溯了她的家庭在一个动荡的时代的旅程。她向我们讲述了童年时在祖母的丝织品商店里的时光，以及当法国军队火烧她的村庄时躲藏起来，看着被火烧掉的花朵从树上飘落的情景。
"像数百只蝴蝶 "在头顶飞舞。她清楚地表明了分裂越南家庭的痛苦选择：她的长姐离开了她坚定的反共家园，加入了越南共产党，并带着她的幼子在丛林营地睡了几个月，白天害怕空袭，晚上害怕老虎。
她跟随几个家庭成员经历了西贡沦陷的最后几个绝望的小时，包括一个试图通过抓住一架离开的美国直升机的滑板逃跑的侄子。根据家庭文件、数十次采访和大量其他研究，这不仅是一部令人难忘的家庭传奇，而且记录了美国人是如何在西贡沦陷的最后几个小时里逃出的。
这不仅是一个令人难忘的家庭传奇，而且记录了越南人自己如何经历他们的时代。
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural poverty to become an influential
landowner, and continuing to the present, Mai Elliott traces her family's journey through an era of tumultuous change. She tells us of childhood hours in her grandmother's silk shop, and of hiding while French troops torched her village, watching while blossoms torn by fire from the trees flutter
"like hundreds of butterflies" overhead. She makes clear the agonizing choices that split Vietnamese families: her eldest sister left her staunchly anti-communist home to join the Viet Minh, and spent months sleeping in jungle camps with her infant son, fearing air raids by day and tigers by night.
And she follows several family members through the last, desperate hours of the fall of Saigon-including one nephew who tried to escape by grabbing the skid of a departing American helicopter. Based on family papers, dozens of interviews, and a wealth of other research, this is not only a memorable
family saga but a record of how the Vietnamese themselves have experienced their times.
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