Behind the Red Mist: Short Fiction by Ho Anh Thai
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Book Overview
Behind the Red Mist gives us for the first time in English a wide range of stories from the most important writer of the post-war generation in Vietnam. The characters range from a party official who turns into a goat while watching porno movies, to an Indian who carries his mother's bones in his knapsack, to a war widow trying desperately to piece together her life through the fragments of debris she collects from her back yard. The title novella "Behind the Red Mist" is a Vietnamese "Back To the Future", a social satire in which a young man in the Hanoi of the eighties receives an electric shock and is transported back to his same apartment block in 1967 wartime Vietnam during the American bombing. He not only witnesses the war with the eyes of someone who knows its outcome, but participates in his parents' courtship and discovers some truths about the generation held up to his own as a role model.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1880684543
ISBN13:9781880684542
Release Date:September 1998
Publisher:Curbstone Press
Length:230 Pages
Weight:0.78 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"
Age Range:8 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 3 and higher
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
imaginative
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This collection comprises 9 short stories and 1 novella. All are imaginative and most examine the struggles of the postwar generation in Vietnam. There is a Kafkaesque quality to some of the stories and the novella is especially interesting. Worth a read.
a good read - great for a book club
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
The first story was good. The next one was better. I thought it was impossible, but each successive story is better than the prior one. An enjoyable read. A book that you'll want to share and discuss with others.
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