Remembering Heaven’s Face (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Balaban
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Culture, Language or languages, Children, Suffering, Politics, Doctors, War, Tragedy, Bureaucracy or bureaucrats, Vietnam or Vietnamese people
This memoir of John Balaban’s years in war-ravaged Vietnam is one of that war’s few legacies of beauty. If anyone doubts whether tragedy can be turned to hope, whether suffering can be turned to joy, let that person read Remembering Heaven’s Face. It is, on many levels, a love story.
Because Balaban performed alternative service in Vietnam as a conscientious objector, his experiences and perspectives on the war are quite different from the now-familiar ones of the combat veteran or the journalist. Because he was drawn to learn about the people—their customs and...
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