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- catalog abstract "Thirty-eight post-Vietnam War stories by American and Vietnamese writers, interspersed between stanzas of the poem "A walk in the garden of heaven" by George Evans. In Nguyen Quang Lap's The Sound of Harness Bells, a couple reunited at war's end try to have a child and the result is a monster, the wife having been gassed by Agent Orange, while in Tim O'Brien's Speaking of Courage, a decorated veteran reflects, that "courage was not always a matter of yes and no ... sometimes you were very brave up to a point and then beyond that point you were not so brave."".
- catalog contributor b8062782.
- catalog contributor b8062783.
- catalog contributor b8062784.
- catalog coverage "Vietnam Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "Introduction / Wayne Karlin -- Part one. A walk in the garden of heaven: [from] A walk in the garden of heaven / George Evans. The American blues / Ward Just -- Wandering souls / Bao Ninh -- Part two. The honored dead: [from] A walk in the garden of heaven. Nada / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Fragment of a man / Ho Anh Thai -- A soldier's burial / Philip Caputo -- Two village women / Nguyen Quang Thieu -- The honored dead / Breece D'J Pancake -- Part three. Wounds: [from] A walk in the garden of heaven. The house behind the temple of literature / Tran Vu -- Helping / Robert Stone -- The rucksack / Le Luu -- The pugilist at rest / Thom Jones -- Please don't knock on my door / Xuan Thieu -- Speaking of courage / Tim O'Brien -- The man who stained his soul / Vu Bao -- Dressed like summer leaves / Andre Dubus -- The slope of life / Nguyen Mong Giac -- Waiting for dark / Larry Brown --".
- catalog description "Nguyen Huy Thiep -- Part seven. [from] A walk in the garden of heaven. Epilogue / Gloria Emerson.".
- catalog description "Part four. Hauntings: [from] A walk in the garden of heaven. Waiting for a friend / Ngo Tu Lap -- Paco's dreams / Larry Heinemann -- Tony D / Le Minh Khue -- The billion dollar skeleton / Phan Huy Duong -- Part five. Exiles: [from] A walk in the garden of heaven. The autobiography of a useless person / Nguyen Xuan Hoang -- Coming down again / John Balaban -- The key / Vo Phien -- The walls, the house, the sky / Thanhha Lai -- Twilight / Hoang Khoi Phong -- Part six. Legacies: [from] A walk in the garden of heaven. Rashad / John Edgar Wideman -- The sound of harness bells / Nguyen Quang Lap -- Point Lookout / Wayne Karlin -- Humping the boonies / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Letters from my father / Robert Olen Butler -- Above the woman's house / Da Ngan -- She in a dance of frenzy / Andrew Lam -- Marine Corps issue / David McLean -- Mother and daughter / Ma Van Khang -- Heat / Richard Bausch -- The general retires /".
- catalog description "Thirty-eight post-Vietnam War stories by American and Vietnamese writers, interspersed between stanzas of the poem "A walk in the garden of heaven" by George Evans. In Nguyen Quang Lap's The Sound of Harness Bells, a couple reunited at war's end try to have a child and the result is a monster, the wife having been gassed by Agent Orange, while in Tim O'Brien's Speaking of Courage, a decorated veteran reflects, that "courage was not always a matter of yes and no ... sometimes you were very brave up to a point and then beyond that point you were not so brave."".
- catalog extent "xvii, 411 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Other side of heaven.".
- catalog identifier "1880684314 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Other side of heaven.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press,".
- catalog relation "Other side of heaven.".
- catalog spatial "Vietnam Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.0108358 20".
- catalog subject "PN6120.95.V46 O87 1995".
- catalog subject "Short stories, American.".
- catalog subject "Short stories, Vietnamese Translations into English.".
- catalog subject "Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Fiction.".
- catalog subject "War stories, American.".
- catalog subject "War stories, Vietnamese Translations into English.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Wayne Karlin -- Part one. A walk in the garden of heaven: [from] A walk in the garden of heaven / George Evans. The American blues / Ward Just -- Wandering souls / Bao Ninh -- Part two. The honored dead: [from] A walk in the garden of heaven. Nada / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Fragment of a man / Ho Anh Thai -- A soldier's burial / Philip Caputo -- Two village women / Nguyen Quang Thieu -- The honored dead / Breece D'J Pancake -- Part three. Wounds: [from] A walk in the garden of heaven. The house behind the temple of literature / Tran Vu -- Helping / Robert Stone -- The rucksack / Le Luu -- The pugilist at rest / Thom Jones -- Please don't knock on my door / Xuan Thieu -- Speaking of courage / Tim O'Brien -- The man who stained his soul / Vu Bao -- Dressed like summer leaves / Andre Dubus -- The slope of life / Nguyen Mong Giac -- Waiting for dark / Larry Brown --".
- catalog tableOfContents "Nguyen Huy Thiep -- Part seven. [from] A walk in the garden of heaven. Epilogue / Gloria Emerson.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part four. Hauntings: [from] A walk in the garden of heaven. Waiting for a friend / Ngo Tu Lap -- Paco's dreams / Larry Heinemann -- Tony D / Le Minh Khue -- The billion dollar skeleton / Phan Huy Duong -- Part five. Exiles: [from] A walk in the garden of heaven. The autobiography of a useless person / Nguyen Xuan Hoang -- Coming down again / John Balaban -- The key / Vo Phien -- The walls, the house, the sky / Thanhha Lai -- Twilight / Hoang Khoi Phong -- Part six. Legacies: [from] A walk in the garden of heaven. Rashad / John Edgar Wideman -- The sound of harness bells / Nguyen Quang Lap -- Point Lookout / Wayne Karlin -- Humping the boonies / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Letters from my father / Robert Olen Butler -- Above the woman's house / Da Ngan -- She in a dance of frenzy / Andrew Lam -- Marine Corps issue / David McLean -- Mother and daughter / Ma Van Khang -- Heat / Richard Bausch -- The general retires /".
- catalog title "The other side of heaven : postwar fiction / by Vietnamese and American writers ; edited by Wayne Karlin, Le Minh Khue, and Truong Vu.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "Translations. fast".
- catalog type "text".