false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg 6535053 3 From the critically acclaimed author of Beneath a Marble Sky and Beside a Burning Sea—the new novel from “a master storyteller,”* set in contemporary Asia.</B><BR><BR>From John Shors comes an unforgettable story of redemption set in modern-day Vietnam.<BR><BR> <I>Dragon House</I> tells the tale of Iris and Noah—two Americans who, as a way of healing their own painful pasts, open a center to house and educate Vietnamese street children. In the slums of a city that has known little but war for generations, Iris and Noah befriend children who dream of nothing more than of going to school, having a home, and being loved. Learning from the poorest of the poor, the most silent of the unheard, Iris and Noah find themselves reborn. Resounding with powerful themes of suffering, sacrifice, friendship, and love, <I>Dragon House</I> brings together East and West, war and peace, and celebrates the resilience of the human spirit. 6727210 1 9 2009 Dragon House total:65|5:34|4:14|3:11|2:3|1:3| 65 268 185 39 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 5 3 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 13:27:53 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 19:15:55 -0700 2009
John Shors continues to establish his reputation as one of this decade's more important writers, an author who understands the art of blending artistic prose with an always surprising depth of knowledge of the cultures he chooses to explore in his fa...more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 5 0 false Tue Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 10:10:20 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 10:11:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 5 2 false Thu Oct 15 08:10:56 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 08:11:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 5 1 false Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 13:20:34 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 13:20:50 -0700 2009
It has a slow buildup at the beginning but once it gets going it sucks you right in. I read it in 3 sittings with th...more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 5 1 false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 21:25:43 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 21:26:02 -0700 2009
The children of the streets of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon, Vietnam) are the heart and soul of "...more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 5 1 false Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 03:56:58 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 04:23:57 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 5 0 false Wed Aug 05 15:11:17 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 15:20:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 5 1 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 23:32:32 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 23:32:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 5 1 false Sun Jul 19 20:35:58 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 20:36:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 4 2 false Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 07:42:01 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 15:52:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 5 2 false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 08:21:47 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 22:14:51 -0700 2009
Dragon House is the story of many people but t...more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 1 1 false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 10:42:05 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 18:48:09 -0700 2009 I didn't finish it for one reason: I cannot stomach fiction books by authors who push their political views via a character. Especially when it reaches a point of absurd, i.e. two homeless Vietnamese childr...more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 2 1 false Thu Oct 15 06:02:11 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 06:47:54 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 06:02:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 3 1 false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 19:48:28 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 14:42:24 -0700 2009
I have to commend Mr Shors for writing a book that not only raises the awareness of childhood poverty in Vietnam, and by extensio...more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 5 1 false Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 15:17:05 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 14:51:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 0 0 false Mon Oct 19 20:18:26 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 20:19:36 -0700 2009
Dragon House tells the tale of Iris and Noah—two Americans who, as a way of healing their own painful pasts, open a center to house and educate Vietnamese street children. In the slums of a city that h...more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 2 0 false Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 09:58:02 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 20:02:08 -0800 2009
I found this book slow going. The characterizations are very thin - it's all angels or devils, honestly. Much of it reads like a travelogue of Vietnam, and the descrip...more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 4 0 false Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 18:50:08 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 09:07:17 -0700 2009
Dragon House has been described as a "moving, deeply descriptive novel that brings all those frequently hidden qualities of compassion, purity of mind, and, yes, love—the things we used to call the human spirit—into the foreground of our feeling...more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 4 0 false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 14:05:52 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 12:00:39 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 6535053 0451227859 9780451227850 65 39 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256073737m/6535053.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535053-dragon-house 4 1 false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 20:21:39 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 22:34:21 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6535053