Behind the Red Mist: Short Fiction by Ho Anh Thai

by Hồ Anh Thái

Behind the Red Mist gives us for the first time in English a wide range of stories from the most important writer of the post-war generation in Vietnam. The characters range from a party official who turns into a goat while watching porno movies, to an Indian who carries his mother's bones in his knapsack, to a war widow trying desperately to piece together her life through the fragments of debris she collects from her back yard. The title novella...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880684543
• ISBN13: 9781880684542
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Curbstone Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 8 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 3 and higher

Customer Reviews

imaginative

This collection comprises 9 short stories and 1 novella. All are imaginative and most examine the struggles of the postwar generation in Vietnam. There is a Kafkaesque quality to some of the stories and the novella is especially interesting. Worth a read.

a good read - great for a book club

The first story was good. The next one was better. I thought it was impossible, but each successive story is better than the prior one. An enjoyable read. A book that you'll want to share and discuss with others.