What Was the Vietnam War? Singapore Literature Prize for English Poetry (2016) This entirely new prose translation

This entirely new prose translation combines a faithful reflection of the spirit of the original

Foucault's attitude towards neoliberalism was at least equivocal

and Kate is drawn--house by house--into the pasts of the people who once lived in this neighborhood that has given up its greatest mystery

Preeti Chhibber

and deeply surreal

What Was the Vietnam War? Singapore Literature Prize for English Poetry (2016) This entirely new prose translationLearn how the United States ended up fighting for twenty years in a remote country on the other side of the world. The Vietnam War was as much a part of the tumultuous Sixties as Flower Power and the Civil Rights Movement. Five US presidents were convinced that American troops could end a war in the small, divided country of Vietnam and stop Communism from spreading in Southeast Asia. But they were wrong, and the result was the death of 58,000