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[ 책 소개 ]
* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
* An ALA Notable Book
Book Description
Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics across the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Now Grove Press is proud to reissue this contemporary classic by one of America's most important living writers, in a new edition of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain that includes two subsequently published stories - "Salem" and "Missing" - that brilliantly complete the collection's narrative journey, returning to the jungles of Vietnam.
Library Journal
In a short span of time, many Vietnamese immigrants to the United States have quietly made good in their adopted country. Butler, who served in Vietnam as a translator, now has given this silent community a voice. The first-person narrators in these tales explore both the old country and the new (primarily Louisiana), as well as the realm of the spirits. Each story unfolds like a delicate paper fan, with startling, ghostly images hiding in every crevice. While many writers have finely described the daily grind of the immigrant experience, Butler has gone one step further, evoking the collective unconscious of a displaced population. Recommended for all literary fiction collections and essential for libraries seeking to expand Asian American literature collections.-- Rita Ciresi, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park
The New York Review of Books
The dark horse winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize, a writer named Robert Olen Butler had, it turned out, published six little-noticed novels. To judge from the two most recent, this comparative neglect is not surprising. . . .Neither work prepares the reader for the originality or the sheer oddity of the best pieces in {this} collection of stories. . . . In the most successful stories (perhaps half of the collection), it is not just the sensibilities of the transplanted Asian that are at stake. . . . I particularly enjoyed 'Fairy Tale.' . . . In 'Relic' a lonely, insecure man who has made some money tries tohasten his assimilation by purchasing one of the shoes that John Lennon had been wearing on the morning of his assassination. Both {these tales} testify to the quirkiness of Butler's imagination and to the touching quality with which he endows the characters who most inspire him. Of the weaker stories . . . Iwill say only that one can happily ignore them while taking delight in the odd attractiveness of the others.
The Sewanee Review
Looking in on these stories from the outside, we see a touch of lunacy: ludicrous plots, bizarre games; far-fetched men and women their southern neighbors might consider a bit touched. But inside the stories, inside the lives Butler creates, we experience loss and need. We learn about the suffering that comes from desire, and just for an instant we look into things so deep we can't deny them.
Chicago Tribune
Butler's achievement is not only to reveal the inner lives of the Vietnamese, but to show, through their eyes, how the rest of us appear from an outside perspective.
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Edition: Paperback: 249 pages
ISBN: 0140176640
책 크기 : 19.6cm x 12.7cm |
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