A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
- ISBN-10
- 0802193897
- ISBN-13
- 9780802193896
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-03-11
- Publisher
- Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
- Author
- Robert Olen Butler
Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: “Uncannily perceptive stories written by an American from the viewpoint of Vietnamese citizens transplanted to Louisiana” (People). 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. “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
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Other editions
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- 2015-09-22
- 320 pages
- Paperback
- Oldcastle Books
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