Giong (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781481106429)

What happens to people who go to war? Meet Craig, trained by the CIA but now a liability to be lost in the ambiguity of war. He befriends an inscrutible Buddhist Time reporter and falls in love with a Swedish nurse while stationed in Saigon but has seen too much and hunted by a mysterious Max connected to the agency responsible for his delivery to Vietnam. It is an extraordinay story filled with unforgettable people, it will captivate you--as it reveals the truth about what happens when cultures collide. Craig is giong, out of the ordinary, odd, in Vietnamese, a poetic elegy to veterans of all wars and a deep examination of the human heart. It is told by an anonymous survivor of the Vietnam war, part confession and revelation, part contrition and repentance. His story is woven through a man he trained with in basic and AIT and fought beside in the remote jungles bordering Laos and Cambodia. His story of Craig, trance like, is of a man gifted and flawed from a vague past told in broken pieces and like the teller, a captive of a nightmarish war, both unable to find their place, 'back in the world.'

Author: Larry Bramblett
ISBN-10: 1481106422
ISBN-13: 9781481106429
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/05/2012
Pages: 598
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.24w x 1.21d