Emmett Wheeler, a Vietnam veteran teaching English to Vietnamese refugees in Maryland, searches for his boyhood friend Dennis Slagel and ends up falling in love with Xuan, Dennis's Vietnamese lover

Ezra Brenner, a Jew, and Maryam Halim, a Palestinian, childhood chums, reunite during a filming on the deserts of Israel, but their love affair is complicated by the political antagonism of their nationalities

When a visiting congressman asks him to help establish contact with a group of MIAs, Loman, a Vietnam veteran operating a bar out of Bangkok, begins an adventure that will forever alter his life.

Recounts the author's journey to his mother's old village in Kolno, Poland, interweaving his mother's stories and memories of the Holocaust, and his own memories of the Vietnam War

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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...read more

Product Description: The Wished For Country is set during the founding period of the Maryland colony, during the mid-17th century. The novel focuses on the entwined stories of James Hallam, a carpenter and indentured servant; Ezekiel, an African slave brought to Maryland from Barbados; and Tawzin, a Piscataway Indian, kidnapped to England when a child, and now back in America...read more

Product Description: How does the literature of a society that has endured decades of war reflect the echoes of that violence to bodies and spirits while depicting the ordinary lives of men and women who are searching, as all people do, for meaning, for happiness, for normalcy, for love? Love After War presents the widest range to date of contemporary writers in Vietnam, men and women who have become part of that country's established canon, as well as young and up-coming writers who have come of age in modern Vietnam...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents a collection of short stories by American and Vietnamese writers about the Vietnam War.