In this anthology, Vietnamese writers describe their experience of
what they call the American War and its lasting legacy through the
lens of their own vital artistic visions. A North Vietnamese
soldier forms a bond with an abandoned puppy. Cousins find their
lives upended by the revelation that their fathers fought on
opposite sides of the war. Two lonely veterans in Hanoi meet years
after the war has ended through a newspaper dating service. A
psychic assists the search for the body of a long-vanished soldier.
The father of a girl suffering from dioxin poisoning struggles with
corrupt local officials. The twenty short stories collected in
Other Moons range from the intensely personal to narratives that
deal with larger questions of remembrance, trauma, and healing. By
a diverse set of authors, including many veterans, they span styles
from social realism to tales of the fantastic. Yet whether
describing the effects of Agent Orange exposure or telling ghost
stories, all speak to the unresolved legacy of a conflict that
still haunts Vietnam. Among the most widely anthologized and
popular pieces of short fiction about the war in Vietnam, these
works appear here for the first time in English. Other Moons offers
Anglophone audiences an unparalleled opportunity to experience how
the Vietnamese think and write about the conflict that consumed
their country from 1954 to 1975-a perspective still largely missing
from American narratives.
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