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'In the building opposite mine here in Ho Chi Minh City, still commonly called Saigon, an old man in the top-floor apartment tends his rooftop garden. He climbs there via a ladder every morning, shirtless and holding a plastic watering can, and spends a half hour amid green potted plants. I watch him shamelessly, a 31-year-old Australian Jimmy Stewart in a Vietnamese Rear Window. How old would he be? Old enough to have been in the war. He moves slowly, and pays no attention to me or anything else beyond his tended patch of green - in fact, he appears to be encouraging a wall of creepers to all but block out his view of the street.' (Publication abstract)
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Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon),
cVietnam,cSoutheast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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