Robert Olen Butler
The Deep Green Sea
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A wrenching love story about the relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a woman who was orphaned when Saigon fell, by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Chicago Tribune).This is an incandescent tale of modern love between a Vietnamese woman, orphaned in 1975 when Saigon fell to the Communists, and a Vietnam War veteran, returning from America to seek closure for decades-old emotional wounds. The more they nurture the love between them, the more they learn about each other, the more complex and dangerous their relationship becomes-and what follows conjures classical tragedy, infused with intense eroticism and with Butler's reverence for Viet…
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A wrenching love story about the relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a woman who was orphaned when Saigon fell, by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Chicago Tribune).This is an incandescent tale of modern love between a Vietnamese woman, orphaned in 1975 when Saigon fell to the Communists, and a Vietnam War veteran, returning from America to seek closure for decades-old emotional wounds. The more they nurture the love between them, the more they learn about each other, the more complex and dangerous their relationship becomes-and what follows conjures classical tragedy, infused with intense eroticism and with Butler's reverence for Vietnamese mythology and history.The Deep Green Seais a landmark work in the literature of love and war, from the acclaimed author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain.A slim, erotic and fable-like...book that picks up on many of Butler's abiding themes-the legacy of the Vietnam War, the clash of Vietnam's folklore and mysticism with American manners...[Butler is] a writer working to cast a spell. -TheNew York TimesBook ReviewIn a deceptively understated manner, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Olen Butler introduces us to a pair of improbable modern lovers . . . [he] plants the seeds of a tragedy that will haunt his readers long after they finish this lyrical love story. -People
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Mercier, Pascal
- ISBN: 978-0-8021-9349-0
- EAN: 9780802193490
- Produktnummer: 21831917
- Verlag: Grove Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 242 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'203 KB
Über den Autor
ROBERT OLEN BUTLER is the author of thirteen novels, six story collections, and a book on the creative process, From Where You Dream. In addition to a Pulitzer Prize and two National Magazine Awards, he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and an NEA grant, as well as the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.
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