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Universal humanity people come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages. Robert olen butler, pulitzer prizewinning author of a good scent from a strange mountain audiobook table of contents. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Now grove press is proud to reissue this contemporary classic by one of americas most important living writers, in a new edition of a good scent from a strange mountain that includes two subsequently published stories salem and missing that brilliantly complete the collections narrative journey, returning to the jungles of vietnam. A good scent from a strange mountain lovely title is made up of twelve separate stories told from the perspective of vietnamese immigrants in the usa most of the stories are set in louisiana and, as the writer served in the vietnamese war as an interpreter, we have to trust his knowledge of vietnamese perception and culture. They have been living in the new orleans area for more than a decade, arriving in america after the fall of south vietnam. His new novel perfume river is another good scent, for sure. He was awarded the 1993 pulitzer prize in fiction for a good scent from a strange mountain, his collection of short stories centered on the lives of transplanted vietnamese in louisiana. A good scent from a strange mountain ebook by robert olen butler. A good scent from a strange mountain biography of robert olen butler. Description book a good scent from a strange mountain by robert olen butler a good scent from a strange mountain is a 1992 collection of short stories by robert olen butler.
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