The deep green sea
a novel
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1997 - Henry Holt, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
56,500 words, Guess
Page Count
226 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL681619M
- ISBN-100805031308
- OCLC Control Number37221059
- OCLC Control Numberdeepgreenseanove00butl
- Library of Congress Control Number97028239
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- Goodreads1063831
- LibraryThing445790
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3552.U8278 D44 1997
Description
In The Deep Green Sea, Robert Olen Butler has created a memorable and incandescent love story between a contemporary Vietnamese woman orphaned in 1975, when Saigon finally fell to the Communists, and a Vietnam veteran who returns from America to a once war-torn land, seeking closure and a measure of peace. Bit by bit they learn more of each other's pasts. Secrets are revealed: Ben's love affair with a Vietnamese prostitute in 1966; Tien's mixed racial heritage and her abandonment by her bar-girl mother, who feared retribution from the North Vietnamese for having given birth to one of the hated "children of dust." In Butler's hands, what follows conjures the stuff of classical tragedy and also achieves a classic reconciliation of once-warring cultures.
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