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245 0  $a The other side of heaven : $b postwar fiction by Vietnamese and American writers / $c edited by Wayne Karlin, Le Minh Khue, and Truong Vu.
250    $a 1st ed.
260    $a Willimantic, CT : $b Curbstone Press, $c 1995.
300    $a xvii, 411 p. ; $c 23 cm.
505 0  $a Introduction / Wayne Karlin -- Part one. A walk in the garden of heaven: A walk in the garden of heaven / George Evans. The American blues / Ward Just. Wandering souls / Bao Ninh -- Part two. The honored dead: a walk in the garden of heaven: Nada / Judith Ortiz Cofer. Fragment of a man / Ho Anh Thai. A soldier's burial / Philip Caputo. Two village women / Nguyen Quang Thieu. The honored dead / Breece D'J Pancake -- Part three. Wounds: a walk in the garden of heaven: The house behind the temple of literature / Tran Vu. Helping / Robert Stone. The rucksack / Le Luu. The pugilist at rest / Thom Jones. Please don't knock on my door / Xuan Thieu. Speaking of courage / Tim O'Brien. The man who stained his soul / Vu Bao. Dressed like summer leaves / Andre Dubus. The slope of life / Nguyen Mong Giac. Waiting for dark / Larry Brown -- Part four. Hauntings: a walk in the garden of heaven: Waiting for a friend / Ngo Tu Lap. Paco's Dreams / Larry Heinemann. Tony D / Le Minh Khue. The billion dollar skeleton / Phan Huy Duong -- Part five. Exiles: a walk in the garden of heaven: The autobiography of a useless person / Nguyen Xuan Hoang. Coming down again / John Balaban. The key / Vo Phien. The walls, the house, the sky / Thanhha Lai. Twilight / Hoang Khoi Phong -- Part six. Legacies: a walk in the garden of heaven: Rashad / John Edgar Wideman. The sound of harness bells / Nguyen Quang Lap. Point lookout / Wayne Karlin. Humping the boonies / Bobbie Ann Mason. Letters from my father / Robert Olen Butler. Above the woman's house / Da Ngan. She in a dance of frenzy / Andrew Lam. Marine Corps issue / David McLean. Mother and daughter / Ma Van Khang. Heat / Richard Bausch. The general retires / Nguyen Huy Thiep -- Part seven. A walk in the garden of heaven: Epilogue / Gloria Emerson.
520    $a Thirty-eight post-Vietnam War stories by American and Vietnamese writers. In Nguyen Quang Lap's The Sound of Harness Bells, a couple reunited at war's end try to have a child and the result is a monster, the wife having been gassed by Agent Orange, while in Tim O'Brien's Speaking of Courage, a decorated veteran reflects, that "courage was not always a matter of yes and no ... sometimes you were very brave up to a point and then beyond that point you were not so brave."
530    $a Also issued online.
650  0 $a Short stories, Vietnamese $x Translations into English.
651  0 $a Vietnam $x Social life and customs $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Short stories, American.
700 1  $a Karlin, Wayne.
700 1  $a Lê, Minh Khuê.
700 1  $a Truong, Vu.
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