Fourth Uncle in the Mountain: The Remarkable Legacy of a Buddhist Itinerant Doctor in Vietnam

Fourth Uncle in the Mountain is an odyssey of a single-father folk hero and his foundling son in a land ravaged by the atrocities of war. It is a classic story complete with humor tragedy and insight from a country where ghosts and magic are real. . Set during the French and American wars in South Vietnam Fourth Uncle in the Mountain is the true story of an orphan Quang Van Nguyen adopted by a sixty-four-year-old monk Thau Van Nguyen. Thau carries great responsibility for his people as a barefoot doctor. Wanted by the French regime he must occasionally must flee in to the jungle where he is perfectly at home living among the animals. As wise and resourceful as Thau is he meets his match in his mischievous son. Quang is more interested in learning Cambodian sorcery and martial arts than in developing his skills and wisdom according to his fathers plan. . Nevertheless Thau manages against all odds to raise his son to follow in his footsteps and in doing so saves him as well as a part of Vietnams esoteric knowledge from the Vietnam holocaust.