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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Curbstone Pr
Publication date September 1, 1998
Pages 171
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781880684566
ISBN-10 188068456X
Dimensions 0.75 by 7.25 by 9.50 in.
Weight 0.90 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $19.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Kiet, a runaway teenager, searches for her Black father, her own identity, and a way to end her pain
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Central to Wayne Karlin's novel Prisoners is the story of Kiet, a runaway teenage orphan from Vietnam who is seeking her Black father and whose flight impinges upon the lives of several other characters, many of them Vietnam War veterans. The drama of the interlinking stories illuminates the "seepage of history" and examines the "crimes of war and family and skin" in the Tidewater region in Maryland. Karlin unpeels their histories like an onion, layer after layer, until the violent climax, and a denouement that offers understanding, hope, and reconciliation.

"Karlin is one of the most gifted, passionate, and powerful writers of his generation."-George Garrett, in choosing Prisoners as one of the most notable books of 1998 in the Dictionary of Literary Biography

"As the novel weaves characters and their voices in and out and moves toward a shattering climax in which age-old sin and horror come to bear on contemporary life, the reader realizes that the story of a young girl's search for a lost father is really the story of the world America has created. It is a dark-laced nightmare vision that still, ironically, has room for salvation."-Multicultural Review

"Poetic, powerful fiction."-Mary Ann Carroll, Booklist

"Prisoners...is a searing exploration of intermingled stories involving a Vietnamese-American teenager and three Vietnam veterans...it contains Karlin's illuminating prose, bluntly realistic dialogue, and mysteries that are solved slowly and surprisingly." Marc Leepson, The VVA Veteran

Wayne Karlin, called by Tim O'Brien "one of the most gifted writers to emerge from the Vietnam War," has written four previous novels: Crossover, Lost Armies, The Extras and US. In 1995, he co-edited The Other Side of Heaven: Post War Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers, which has become a benchmark anthology. He is also the series editor for Curbstone's Voices from Vietnam Series of contemporary fiction.

Also available by Wayne Karlin
The Other Side of Heaven
PB $1.95, 1-880684-31-4 CUSA

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Hardcover
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from Curbstone Pr (September 1, 1998)
9781880684566 | details & prices | 171 pages | 7.25 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $19.95
About: Kiet, a runaway teenager, searches for her Black father, her own identity, and a way to end her pain
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Reprint edition from Curbstone Pr (October 1, 2000)
9781880684719 | details & prices | 171 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $17.95
About: Central to Wayne Karlin's novel Prisoners is the story of Kiet, a runaway teenage orphan from Vietnam who is seeking her Black father and whose flight impinges upon the lives of several other characters, many of them Vietnam War veterans.

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