The Volunteer
"Thrilling... Scibona has built a masterpiece." - The New York Times Book Review "All of it -- all of it -- is just so ridiculously beautiful." - Jason Sheehan, NPR.org "The rewards are enormous. This…
Specifikacia The Volunteer
"Thrilling... Scibona has built a masterpiece." - The New York Times Book Review "All of it -- all of it -- is just so ridiculously beautiful." - Jason Sheehan, NPR.org "The rewards are enormous. This is a spectacular work of fiction." - San Francisco ChronicleA long-awaited new novel from a National Book Award Finalist, the epic story of a restless young man who is captured during the Vietnam War and pressed into service for a clandestine branch of the United States governmentA small boy speaking an unknown language is abandoned by his father at an international airport, with only the clothes on his back and a handful of money jammed in the pocket of his coat. So begins The Volunteer. But in order to understand this heartbreaking and indefensible decision, the story must return to the moment, decades