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St. Martin's Press
April 2010
On Sale: March 30, 2010
400 pages
ISBN: 0312611579
EAN: 9780312611576
Hardcover
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Fiction
A unique and sweeping debut novel of an American female
combat photographer in the Vietnam War, as she captures the
wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of
two men. On a stifling day in 1975, the North Vietnamese army is
poised to roll into Saigon. As the fall of the city begins,
two lovers make their way through the streets to escape to a
new life. Helen Adams, an American photojournalist, must
take leave of a war she is addicted to and a devastated
country she has come to love. Linh, the Vietnamese man who
loves her, must grapple with his own conflicted loyalties of
heart and homeland. As they race to leave, they play out a
drama of devotion and betrayal that spins them back through
twelve war-torn years, beginning in the splendor of Angkor
Wat, with their mentor, larger-than-life war correspondent
Sam Darrow, once Helen's infuriating love and fiercest
competitor, and Linh's secret keeper, boss and truest friend. Tatjana Soli paints a searing portrait of an American
woman’s struggle and triumph in Vietnam, a stirring canvas
contrasting the wrenching horror of war and the treacherous
narcotic of obsession with the redemptive power of love.
Readers will be transfixed by this stunning novel of
passion, duty and ambition among the ruins of war.
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