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In The Deep Green Sea, Robert Olen Butler has created a memorable and incandescent love story between a contemporary Vietnamese woman orphaned in 1975, when Saigon finally fell to the Communists, and a Vietnam veteran who returns from America to a once war-torn land, seeking closure and a measure of peace. Bit by bit they learn more of each other's pasts.
Secrets are revealed: Ben's love affair with a Vietnamese prostitute in 1966; Tien's mixed racial heritage and her abandonment by her bar-girl mother, who feared retribution from the North Vietnamese for having given birth to one of the hated "children of dust." In Butler's hands, what follows conjures the stuff of classical tragedy and also achieves a classic reconciliation of once-warring cultures.
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Fiction, History, Racially mixed children, Veterans, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Vietnam, fiction, Large type books, Fiction, historical, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Fiction, romance, historical, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, fictionPlaces
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The Deep Green Sea: A Novel
January 15, 1999, Holt Paperbacks
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Originally published, New York: Holt, 1997.
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