| Behind the Red Mist: Short Fiction by Ho Anh Thai Contributor(s): Thai, Ho Anh (Author), Karlin, Wayne (Editor), Nguyen, Qui Duc (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1880684543 ISBN-13: 9781880684542 Publisher: Curbstone Press OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1998 Annotation: "Behind the Red Mist" offers for the first time in English a wide range of stories from an important writer of the post-war generation in Vietnam. Ho Anh Thai is known for his bitingly sharp and gently whimsical fiction. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98-20562 |
| Series: Voices from Vietnam |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.49" W x 8.5" (0.70 lbs) 230 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |