The Volunteer
The Volunteer "Thrilling... 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…
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The Volunteer
"Thrilling... 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. 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.
But in order to understand this heartbreaking and indefensible decision, the story must return to the moment, decades So begins The Volunteer.