Other Moons : : Vietnamese Short Stories of the American War and Its Aftermath.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Am, Nguyen Thi,; Anh, Ta Duy,; Babcock, Joseph,; Chau, Nguyen Minh,; Ha, Quan Manh,; Hao, Vo Thi,; Le, Hanh,; Liem, Luong,; Long, Lai Van,; Luan, Nguyen Trong,; Minh, Suong Nguyet,; Nghi, Mai Tien,; Ngoc, Truong Van,; Ninh, Bao,; Phuong, Nguyen Thi Mai,; Tam, Vuong,; Tan, Thai Ba,; Tho, Nguyen Van,; Thuan, Nguyen Ngoc,; Tien, Pham Ngoc,; Tran, Nguyen Thi Thu,; Tu, Nguyen Ngoc,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword: Writing About War Is Writing About Peace -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: A Note on the Selection and Translation of Stories -- 1. UNSUNG HERO -- 2. WHITE CLOUDS FLYING -- 3. LOUSE CRAB SEASON -- 4. BIRDS IN FORMATION -- 5. A CRESCENT MOON IN THE WOODS -- 6. MS. THOAI -- 7. THE CORPORAL -- 8. RED APPLES -- 9. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE VILLAGE -- 10. BROTHER, WHEN WILL YOU COME HOME? -- 11. WAR -- 12. THE CHAU RIVER PIER -- 13. STORMS -- 14. THEY BECAME MEN -- 15. AN AMERICAN SERVICE HAMLET -- 16. LOVE AND WAR -- 17. THE PERSON COMING FROM THE WOODS -- 18. OUT OF THE LAUGHING WOODS -- 19. THE SORROW WASN’T ONLY OURS -- 20. A MORAL MURDERER -- Permissions and Acknowledgments