The General Retires and Other Stories

by Nguyễn Huy Thiệp and Dana Sachs

When it first appeared in 1987, the title story of this collection of stories by Nguyen Huy Thiep caused a sensation in Vietnam. Not since the Communist revolution had readers found as stark and compelling a view of their world as The General Retires offered them. Written in spare, succinct prose, it captures the despair of an old general who, after many years of devoted service to his country, is alienated by the emptiness of the society into which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195885805
• ISBN13: 9780195885804
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"