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Tuan Nguyen and his father attempt to escape from Vietnam by crossing the mountains on foot. When they come across a group of refugees being transported across the border by helicopter Tuan's father blackmails the soldiers into allowing Tuan onto the next helicopter to safety. Tuan eventually arrives in Australia where he constantly lives in hope that his father will turn up.
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Epigraph: Water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has an Asian setting.
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cVietnam,cSoutheast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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