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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

Robert Olen Butler

Paperback | Pages: 269 pages

Rating: 3.96 | 7831 Users | 539 Reviews

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Original Title:	A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories
ISBN:	0802137989 (ISBN13: 9780802137982)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1993), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1993), Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (1993)

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Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics across the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Now Grove Press is proud to reissue this contemporary classic by one of America's 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 collection's narrative journey, returning to the jungles of Vietnam.

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Title	:	A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Author	:	Robert Olen Butler
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 269 pages
Published	:	April 5th 2001 by Grove Press (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories

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[2.5] About a third of the way through this collection, the stories started to irritate me. The writing felt like it was put through a strainer to become stiff and bland. I thought, "a bad translation." Of course, these are not translated stories. They are the stories of Vietnamese refugees, written in first person by Robert Olen Butler, a white American. I don't like the idea of putting narrow restrictions on a writer's imagination - why shouldn't Butler imagine these voices? And they were

a white guy writing vietnamese stories in choppy language as if it were written by a non-english speaker. nobody thinks in language this choppy, and though ESL speakers might not speak as eloquently in English, it doesn't mean their thoughts are disorganized and choppy. it was also just boring and it felt like a chore to read. i quit part way through.

Exemplary short story collection! Have not been moved this way since Jhumpa Lahiri's (also Pulitzer Prize-winning) "Interpreter of Maladies." CANNOT POSSIBLY be MISSED by any serious student of the Short Story or modern American literature. A late night top-notch Scotch... or an aroma that arrives at you with an intimate immediacy.

In THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O'Brien he has a short story about the young enemy soldier that he killed by throwing a hand grenade at him. In Olen Butler's A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN, there is "Salem" the short story of a Vietnamese soldier that keeps a pack of Salem cigarettes that he recovered from a dead American soldier that he had killed. He is troubled because the government wants him to return all of the items that could be used to identify the dead Americans. Ho Chi Minh

For my book challenge I had to read an award winning book that was set in a place I had previously lived. Since I was born in Vietnam to Vietnamese parents and lived there for a while and also lived in Louisiana, I thought this book was perfect. This book is a collection of 15 short stories about Vietnamese refugees who have resettled in Louisiana after the war. This book won the Pulitzer in 1993.The stories are varied, many about resettled refugees but a couple about people still in Vietnam.

So, I actually really liked a lot of these stories, but this book bothered me because all the stories are narrated by Vietnamese or Vietnamese Americans and the author is white. I mean, no one should be confined to only write from the perspective of their race/gender, but I can't really get over this one. I've read other books that do the same thing and haven't though twice about it (although maybe I should have thought twice), but this collection of stories is particularly troubling to me.I've

A relief to have finished this. Despite my wanting to enjoy it, by the middle it felt like an obligation. Pushed through though, as it's a Pulitzer fiction winner and I've been working my way through them over last few years. Some nice writing here, but a lot of sameness to the stories.