A good scent from a strange mountain
Subtitle: stories
By: by Robert Olen Butler.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Vietnamese Americans -- Fiction; Louisiana -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Description: 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.