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Other moons: Vietnamese short stories of the American War and its aftermath
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
New York: Columbia University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In this anthology, Vietnamese writers describe their experience of
what they call the American War and its lasting legacy through the
lens of their own vital artistic visions. A North Vietnamese
soldier forms a bond with an abandoned puppy. Cousins find their
lives upended by the revelation that their fathers fought on
opposite sides of the war. Two lonely veterans in Hanoi meet years
after the war has ended through a newspaper dating service. A
psychic assists the search for the body of a long-vanished soldier.
The father of a girl suffering from dioxin poisoning struggles with
corrupt local officials.
The twenty short stories collected in Other Moons range
from the intensely personal to narratives that deal with larger
questions of remembrance, trauma, and healing. By a diverse set of
authors, including many veterans, they span styles from social
realism to tales of the fantastic. Yet whether describing the
effects of Agent Orange exposure or telling ghost stories, all
speak to the unresolved legacy of a conflict that still haunts
Vietnam. Among the most widely anthologized and popular pieces of
short fiction about the war in Vietnam, these works appear here for
the first time in English. Other Moons offers Anglophone
audiences an unparalleled opportunity to experience how the
Vietnamese think and write about the conflict that consumed their
country from 1954 to 1975-a perspective still largely missing from
American narratives.