Yellow Fever by Jean Lartéguy

Hardcover (1965)

From the flap: “The place is Vietnam; the time, when the French were pulling out of Hanoi in the North and the different sects were beginning to fight against each other in Saigon.” In the author’s words, the novel’s title refers to “a sort of nostalgia…. I dedicate this book to all those who, like myself, were infected by this pernicious disease and still derive a certain pleasure from harboring it.”