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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

Robert Olen Butler
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Pages
288
Year
2012
Language
English
Publisher
Grove Press

About

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is Robert Olen Butler's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of lyrical and poignant stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its enduring impact on the Vietnamese. Written in a soaring prose, Butler's haunting and powerful stories blend Vietnamese folklore and contemporary American realities, creating a vibrant panorama that is epic in its scope. This new edition includes two previously uncollected stories – "Missing" and "Salem" – that brilliantly complete the collection's narrative journey, returning to the jungles of Vietnam to explore the experiences of a former Vietcong soldier and an American MIA.

Related Subjects

  • Literary
  • Adult Fiction
  • Asian American & Pacific Islander
  • Southern
  • Short Stories (single author)

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    Reviews

    "Remarkable . . . for how beautifully it achieves its daring project of making the Vietnamese real."
    George Packer, The New York Times Book Review
    "Deeply affecting . . . A brilliant collection of stories about storytellers whose recited folklore radiates as implicit prayer . . . One of the strongest collections I've read in ages."
    Ann Beattie
    "Butler's achievement is not only to reveal the inner lives of the Vietnamese, but to show, through their eyes, how the rest of us appear from an outside perspective."
    Madison Smart Bell, Chicago Tribune

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