Wayne Karlin

• May-1988
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• Oct-1989
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Ezra Brenner, a Jew, and Maryam Halim, a Palestinian, childhood chums, reunite during a filming on the deserts of Israel, but their love affair is complicated by the political antagonism of their nationalities...

• Feb-1993
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• Oct-1995
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Just as the remaining trade sanctions against Vietnam are being lifted comes The Other Side of Heaven, a collection of short stories by American and Vietnamese writers about the Vietnam War (or the 'American War, ' depending on who is speaking). 'Thi...

• Nov-2000
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Central to Wayne Karlin's novel Prisoners is the story of Kiet, a runaway teenage orphan from Vietnam who is seeking her Black father and whose flight impinges upon the lives of several other characters, many of them Vietnam War veterans. The drama o...

• Jul-2003
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How does the literature of a society that has endured decades of war reflect the echoes of that violence to bodies and spirits while depicting the ordinary lives of men and women who are searching, as all people do, for meaning, for happiness, for no...

• Jun-2008
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Marble Mountain reads like a detective story as the protagonist, Kiet Hallam, an adopted daughter of African American and Vietnamese descent, searches for her true identity. Set in both America and Vietnam, and written from the perspective of both Am...

• Feb-2020
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“A novel that vividly examines the struggle of enslaved people to find their freedom, dignity and self-worth as our country struggled.” -- Michael Glaser, former Poet Laureate of MarylandWe have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold...

• Jun-2023
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The conflict in Vietnam has been rewritten and reframed into many corners of American life and has long shadowed contemporary political science and foreign policy. The war and its aftermath have engendered award-winning films and books. It has held u...

• Sep-2024
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Definition: Genizah is a storage area in a Jewish synagogue or cemetery designated for the temporary storage of worn-out Hebrew-language books and papers on religious topics prior to proper cemetery burial. In the novel The Genizah, Wayne Karlin ent...