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Giong

Giong

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1481106422
ISBN13: 9781481106429
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 5 2012
Pages: 598
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.21 Width: 5.24 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
What happens to people who go to war? Meet Craig, trained by the CIA but now a liability to be lost in the ambiguity of war. He befriends an inscrutible Buddhist Time reporter and falls in love with a Swedish nurse while stationed in Saigon but has seen too much and hunted by a mysterious Max connected to the agency responsible for his delivery to Vietnam. It is an extraordinay story filled with unforgettable people, it will captivate you--as it reveals the truth about what happens when cultures collide. Craig is giong, out of the ordinary, odd, in Vietnamese, a poetic elegy to veterans of all wars and a deep examination of the human heart. It is told by an anonymous survivor of the Vietnam war, part confession and revelation, part contrition and repentance. His story is woven through a man he trained with in basic and AIT and fought beside in the remote jungles bordering Laos and Cambodia. His story of Craig, trance like, is of a man gifted and flawed from a vague past told in broken pieces and like the teller, a captive of a nightmarish war, both unable to find their place, 'back in the world.'

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