Tim O'Brien: The Things They Carried, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

Sie trugen ihre Waffen, sie trugen ihre Angst, sie trugen ihre Hoffnung, sie trugen Erinnerungen an daheim und sie trugen ihre toten Kameraden. Tim O'Brien trug noch mehr. Er trug die Geschichten seiner Kompanie, der Alpha Company, aus Vietnam heraus, so lange bis er sie aufgeschrieben hat. Jeder Satz seiner 22 Erzählungen ist eine Wahrheit gegen den Krieg, gegen das Sterben und das Vergessen. A sequence of stories about the Vietnam War, this book also has the unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme. It aims to summarize America's involvement in Vietnam, and her coming to terms with that experience in the years that followed.

Klappentext

The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.

'The Things They Carried' is, on its surface, a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it has the cumulative power and unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme.

But while Vietnam is central to 'The Things They Carried', it is not simply a book about war. It is also a book about the human heart - about the terrible weight of those things we carry through our lives.