The Deep Green Sea

Literature & Fiction

Robert Olen Butler

Contemporary

Henry Holt Company

Mr. Spaceman

Vintage

In an attempt to make sense of his disappointing life, a thirty-five-year-old man explores his sexual history with the woman of his childhood fantasies, a series of Vietnamese prostitutes, a stranger, and his jealous wife. Reprint.

They Whisper

Literary

Penguin??Books

Confronts the face of the human condition through the eyes of Desi, an extraterrestrial who has kept a quiet vigil over the planet for decades, seeking a better understanding of its inhabitants. Occasionally he has brought a chosen few aboard his spaceship, and on 30th December, 1999 he beams aboard a tour bus with 12 passengers.

MR. SPACEMAN.

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.

Fair Warning

Secker

General FictionLarge Print EditionPulitzer Prize-winner Butler has come upon his heart of darkness . . . starred, BooklistThirty years after his tour in Vietnam, Benjamin Cole returns to the country where he lost his innocence and falls in love with Tien. Bit by bit, they reveal the pains of their lives to each other and find that their paths intertwine in a most disturbing way. To resolve a secret that they both fear is true, Ben and Tien travel together up the infamous Highway One to find the one person who knows . . .

Deep Green Sea

Secker Warburg

A collection of stories which demonstrates Butler's genuine fondness for the outsized fancies of tabloid readers' and writers' imaginations.

Tabloid Dreams

Minerva

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

GROVE PRESS

A collection of stories by the author of The Deuce, Wabash, The Alleys of Eden, and On Distant Ground features tales of the residents of Saigon as they face love, loss, despair, and more.

Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

United States

Henry_Holt

The Deep Green Sea: A Novel

In The Deep Green Sea, Robert Olen Butler has created a memorable and incandescent love story between Tien, a contemporary Vietnamese woman orphaned in 1975, when the city finally fell to the Communists, and Ben, a Vietnam veteran who returns from America to a 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. Infused equally with eroticism and with Butler's deep and abiding reverence for Vietnamese myth and history, The Deep Green Sea is a landmark work in the literature of love and war.

Henry Holt and Co.

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