Jonathan Chamberlain
Autore di The Alphabet of Vietnam
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Photo: Merlyn Chesteman
Opere di Jonathan Chamberlain
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 20th Century
- Sesso
- male
- Luogo di residenza
- Hong Kong
- Istruzione
- University of Sussex (social anthropology)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 11
- Utenti
- 159
- Popolarità
- #132,375
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 25
- ISBN
- 28
- Lingue
- 1
I am sure they were already different from each other before the war and during the war. Obviously.
What happens when one brother stays at home during war (in this case the Vietnam War) and the other one goes? After the death of the soldier(by suicide) the surviving brother receives the suicide note with instructions to go to his forest hideaway to visit his war buddy. there is a task to fulfill. The girl that both returning vets have sharing as a sex slave in captivity for quite some time (the girl and her girlfriend initially came out to the forest for what they expected was to be a one night party after which the would be free to go back home, but the one ended up being murdered within a very short time) has given birth to a son.
The task is to rescue this boy and get him to civilization. The main character, the non-soldier will be curious, as is the reader, about who is the biological father of the boy.
It is no mystery to us now when we read about post-traumatic stress disorder to see that the violence of war does not evaporate from a returning veteran. But it is still shocking to read about it in this book. We who stayed home must offer our support and resources.… (altro)