_The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea_ , written for children, is a fantasy, in which Davy Jones and all the drowned pirates under the sea are discovered guarding the great knots that tie latitudes and longitudes together to keep the world from splitting.
The Deep Green Sea
โ Scribed by Butler, Robert Olen
- Book ID
- 107758315
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 802 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780802193490
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โฆ Synopsis
"A slim, erotic and fable-like . . . book that picks up on many of Butler's abiding themes--the legacy of the Vietnam War, the clash of Vietnam's folklore and mysticism with American manners . . . [Butler is] a writer working to cast a spell." --New York Times Book Review
"In a deceptively understated manner, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Olen Butler introduces us to a pair of improbable modern lovers . . . [he] plants the seeds of a tragedy that will haunt his readers long after they finish this lyrical love story." --People
In The Deep Green Sea , Robert Olen Butler has created an incandescent tale of modern love between a Vietnamese woman, orphaned in 1975 when Saigon fell to the Communists, and a Vietnam War veteran, returning from America to seek closure for decades-old emotional wounds. The more they nurture the love between them, the more they learn about each other, the more complex and dangerous their relationship...
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