All Booked Up Reads The Lotus Eaters for March
About the Book
A unique and sweeping debut novel
of an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War, as she
captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of
two men.
On a stifling day in 1975, the
North Vietnamese army is poised to roll into Saigon. As the fall of the
city begins, two lovers make their way through the streets to escape to a
new life. Helen Adams, an American photojournalist, must take leave of a
war she is addicted to and a devastated country she has come to love.
Linh, the Vietnamese man who loves her, must grapple with his own
conflicted loyalties of heart and homeland. As they race to leave, they
play out a drama of devotion and betrayal that spins them back through
twelve war-torn years, beginning in the splendor of Angkor Wat, with
their mentor, larger-than-life war correspondent Sam Darrow, once
Helen's infuriating love and fiercest competitor, and Linh's secret
keeper, boss and truest friend.
Tatjana Soli paints a searing
portrait of an American woman’s struggle and triumph in Vietnam, a
stirring canvas contrasting the wrenching horror of war and the
treacherous narcotic of obsession with the redemptive power of love.
Readers will be transfixed by this stunning novel of passion, duty and
ambition among the ruins of war.
Next Month: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
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