Sie trugen ihre Waffen, sie trugen ihre Angst, sie trugen ihre Hoffnung, sie trugen Erinnerungen an daheim und sie trugen ihre toten Kameraden. Tim O'Brien trug noch mehr. Er trug die Geschichten seiner Kompanie, der Alpha Company, aus Vietnam heraus, so lange bis er sie aufgeschrieben hat. Jeder Satz seiner 22 Erzählungen ist eine Wahrheit gegen den Krieg, gegen das Sterben und das Vergessen.

Informationen zum Autor Tim O'Brien was born in Minnesota and graduated from Macalester College in St Paul. He established himself as one of the leading writers of his generation in 1973 when he published 'If I Die In A Combat Zone', the compelling account of his own tour of duty in Vietnam, and is widely regarded as the finest novelist the Vietnam War has produced. Klappentext The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. 'The Things They Carried' is, on its surface, a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it has the cumulative power and unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme. But while Vietnam is central to 'The Things They Carried', it is not simply a book about war. It is also a book about the human heart - about the terrible weight of those things we carry through our lives. Zusammenfassung The million-copy bestseller! which is a ground-breaking meditation on war! memory! imagination! and the redemptive power of storytelling.

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Tim O'Brien was born in Minnesota and graduated from Macalester College in St Paul. He established himself as one of the leading writers of his generation in 1973 when he published 'If I Die In A Combat Zone', the compelling account of his own tour of duty in Vietnam, and is widely regarded as the finest novelist the Vietnam War has produced.

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The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.

'The Things They Carried' is, on its surface, a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it has the cumulative power and unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme.

But while Vietnam is central to 'The Things They Carried', it is not simply a book about war. It is also a book about the human heart - about the terrible weight of those things we carry through our lives.