- Gebundene Ausgabe: 172 Seiten
- Verlag: Curbstone Pr (September 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 188068456X
- ISBN-13: 978-1880684566
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,9 x 16,1 x 2,3 cm
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History leaves tracks on the soul, as regional American writers from Hawthorne to Faulkner have known, as have African American authors, and U.S. soldiers who traded their M-1s for typewriters (more recently, computers) after Vietnam. Karlin is in that last category, with four previous novels, a memoir, and the coeditorship of The Other Side of Heaven (1995), a collection of postwar American and Vietnamese fiction, to his credit. In Prisoners, he examines war and race, blood and bones in a story linking several wars and the painful trail of memory. In Point Lookout, Maryland, a black-Vietnamese orphan escapes a brutal foster father and seeks her natural father. A Nam-vet anthropologist reconstructs mass graves near a Civil War prison, welcomes his Israeli cousin--a veteran of efforts to control the intifada--and considers an invitation to seek MIA remains in Vietnam. Other local vets stare down history--their own, their ancestors', their nation's--as they wrestle with past and present demons in Karlin's poetic, powerful fiction. Mary Carroll
From Library Journal
Karlin is the author of a handful of titles, fiction and nonfiction (Rumors & Stones, LJ 10/15/96), centering on the Vietnam War era. He is known for his poetic and emotive use of language, and this compact novel does not disappoint, intertwining several personal stories to show how war can have an impact in many different ways. The stories focus on Kiet, an orphan from Vietnam who never knew her father, a black American soldier. She has run away from her halfway house on the coast of Maryland, and the townspeople, many of them with war-related histories of their own, become caught up in the search for her. Karlin presents multiple versions of war and its prisoners. Although the Vietnam War may be the overall theme, we are also exposed to the Civil War, Desert Storm, the Arab-Israeli conflict, racial tension, and even the warlike ambiance of a hospital emergency room. The narratives flow together gracefully, and Karlin's language is finely crafted. Recommended for public and academic libraries.?Beth Gibbs, P.L. of Charlotte & Mecklenburg Cty., Davidson, NC
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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18. Juli 2001
Format:Taschenbuch
"Though more books have been written about Vietnam than any other war, Karlin moves himself into the upper echelon of this vast list of authors with this story of Kiet-Keisha. In terms of giving authentic, literary substance, he belongs with the other giants of his genre. Moreover, his prose is as richly poetic and resonating as Walt Whitman." --American Book Review
"Karlin is one of the most gifted, passionate, and powerful writers of his generation." --George Garrett, in choosing PRISONERS as one of the most notable books of 1998 in the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
"As the novel weaves characters and their voices in and out and moves toward a shattering climax in which age-old sin and horror come to bear on contemporary life, the reader realizes that the story of a young girl's search for a lost father is really the story of the world America has created. It is a dark-laces nightmare vision that still, ironically, has room for salvation." --Multicultural Review
"PRISONERS is the kind of novel which tells the rest of us what fiction can do when it is at its very best." --Fred D'Aguiar, Winner of the Whitbread Prize for The Longest Memory.
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