Wayne Karlin, Author . Curbstone $16.95 (342p) ISBN 978-1-880684-89-4
Karlin turns the stereotypes of colonial America upside down in this latest effort, a powerful, vividly imagined historical novel about a running battle between a violent carpenter and his former slave that takes place during a trade war in the...
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Wayne Karlin, Author Curbstone Press $19.95 (214p) ISBN 978-1-880684-42-9
In 1941, German troops occupying the Polish town of Kolno machine-gunned into ditches its remaining 2000 Jewish inhabitants. In this poignant narrative, Karlin, an American novelist and former helicopter gunner in Vietnam, reenacts his 1993 visit to
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Wayne Karlin, Author Curbstone Press $15 (216p) ISBN 978-1-931896-16-0
Novelist and Vietnam veteran Karlin, author of The Wished for Country, worked in Vietnam as a scriptwriter and authenticity consultant on the Vietnamese war movie Song of the Stork and later on a documentary about American college students...
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Wayne Karlin, Author Henry Holt & Company $0 (150p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0715-2
The ""lost army'' of this haunting novel's title is an apparently apocryphal group of American and South Vietnamese soldiers turned renegade in the Burma-Laos-Thailand Triangle, because they have become disillusioned or are afraid to go home to a...
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Wayne Karlin, Author Henry Holt & Company $18.45 (263p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1076-3
The characters in this morally ambiguous, authentically detailed story, set in present-day Israel, could have stepped from the pages of le Carre. Failed architect Ezra Brenner, an alcoholic, reports to his Uncle Aharon, a member of the Israeli...
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Wayne Karlin, Author Henry Holt & Company $22.5 (215p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1083-1
Like the movie Apocalypse Now , this novel mixes cynical realism with hallucinatory myth as it measures the psychic wounds inflicted by the Vietnam War. The narrative portions follow Loman, an expatriate American vet who owns a bar/brothel in...
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Wayne Karlin, Author Curbstone Press $19.95 (172p) ISBN 978-1-880684-56-6
The Vietnam War haunts the memories and the Civil War haunts the family histories of characters living on the Maryland shore in this dark, bitter fifth novel (Crossover, etc.). Kiet, a 15-year-old Amerasian girl, dons Viet Cong-style black pajamas...
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