"A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is remarkable for how beautifully it achieves its daring project of making the Vietnamese real. -- George Packer, The New York Times Book Review "Butler writes essentially, and in a bewitching translation of voice and sympathy, what it means to lose a country, to remember it, and to have the memory begin to grow old. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories Paperback – . by. Robert Olen Butler (Author) › Visit Amazon's Robert Olen Butler Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Robert Olen Butler (Author) out of 5 stars. www.doorway.ru by: · In Olen Butler's A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN, there is "Salem" the short story of a Vietnamese soldier that keeps a pack of Salem cigarettes that he recovered from a dead American soldier that he had killed. He is troubled because the government wants him to return all of the items that could be used to identify the dead Americans.4/5.
Robert Olen Butler had already published five novels—most of them concerning Vietnam during the war era—when he brought out his collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain in This volume of short stories—all of which featured unique narrators but were set in Louisiana among Vietnamese immigrants—drew immediate critical. Robert Olen Butler's "Crickets". The other day, someone told me about Robert Olen Butler's Pulitzer Prize Winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (), a collection of short stories that chronicles the lives of Vietnamese immigrants in Louisiana. I've only had the chance to read a couple of the selections, and today I would like to. Hide details. Choose items to buy together. This item: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories. by Robert Olen Butler Paperback. $ In Stock. Ships from and sold by www.doorway.ru FREE Shipping on orders over $ The History of Love.
"A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is remarkable for how beautifully it achieves its daring project of making the Vietnamese real. -- George Packer, The New York Times Book Review "Butler writes essentially, and in a bewitching translation of voice and sympathy, what it means to lose a country, to remember it, and to have the memory begin to grow old. The book then ends with the titular A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain, another good story with a weak end, that follows an old man and his reminiscences about Ho Chi Minh. At his best Butler gets inside a foreign identity, while at his worst he utterly fails, as in Fairy Tale. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories Paperback – . by. Robert Olen Butler (Author) › Visit Amazon's Robert Olen Butler Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Robert Olen Butler (Author) out of 5 stars. ratings.
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