A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

Robert Olen Butler
3.95
9,278 ratings 679 reviews
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.
Genres: Short StoriesFictionHistorical FictionWarAsiaLiteratureBook ClubClassicsLiterary FictionContemporary
269 Pages

Community Reviews:

5 star
3034 (33%)
4 star
3574 (39%)
3 star
2012 (22%)
2 star
499 (5%)
1 star
159 (2%)

Readers also enjoyed

Other books by Robert Olen Butler

Lists with this book

To Kill a Mockingbird
Middlesex
The Road
Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels
99 books952 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Grapes of Wrath
Gone with the Wind
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
99 books266 voters
The Joy Luck Club
The Kite Runner
The Namesake
Immigrant Experience Literature
995 books1412 voters
The Quiet American
The Things They Carried
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Cambodia and Vietnam
214 books161 voters