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Le Minh Khue. The Stars, The Earth, The River. Wayne Karlin, ed. Bac Hoai Tran, Dana Sachs, trs. Willimantic, Ct. Curbstone (Consortium, distr.). 1997. 234 pages. $12.95. ISBN 1-880684-47-0.
It is a paradox of war that our enemies are just as human as we. Before this realization can lead to understanding and forgiveness, however, many bridges must be crossed and wounds must heal.
In an effort to forge reconciliation among the opposing sides of the Vietnam War, Curbstone Press has initiated Voices from Vietnam, a project designed to bring the "unheard voices" of contemporary Vietnamese literature to an English-reading public. This follow-up to its Vietnamese-American collaborative anthology 7he Other Side of Heaven (1995; see WILT 71:2, p. 468) begins with a collection of foutteen short stories by one of that volume's editors, Le Minh Kline, a former war correspondent, now an author and editor in Hanoi. Edited by Wayne Karlin and translated by Tran Bac Hoai and Dana Sachs, The Stars, The arth, The River offers one writer's perspective on life in postwar Vietnam.
The collection opens with...