Short StoriesSocial life and customs

A good scent from a strange mountain

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The Vietnam War continues to play itself out in fiction, autobiography, and history books, but no American author has captured the experiences of the Vietnamese themselves--and caught their voices--more tellingly than Robert Olen Butler, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain. The 15 stories collected here, all written in the first person, blend Vietnamese folklore, the terrible, lingering memories of war, American pop culture and family drama.

Subjects: Short Stories
Social life and customs
Romans, nouvelles
War & Military
Influence
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Set in: Louisiana

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