Tim O'Brien is the author of Going After Cacciato a Vietnam war novel that won the National Book Award for fiction in 1979. I have not read this book, which is strange as I love all books having to do with the Vietnam war and this is one of the best. His follow up novel, The Things They Carried, was on sale at Powell's Books, so I picked it up for my vacation reading.The Things They Carried is a strange book as it is billed as fiction, but it feels very real when you read it. It is composed of a dozen intertwined, first-person stories of the author's tour of Vietnam, but again it's fiction. Further confusing matters, the narrator in one of the stories makes a distinction between "story truth" and "happening truth." The authors tells us that no war stories are technically true, it's the ones that bring the experience to life without concern for total accuracy that make it easiest for the uninitiated to understand what war is really like. If that was his goal O'Brien does a great job. The mundaness of humping your way from village to village is interspersed with horrific stories of loss and callousness towards the enemy, as well as the difficulty of returning to the real world and letting go.
This is a great book and I look forward to reading Going After Cacciato.
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