Remembering Heaven's Face
A Story of Rescue in Wartime Vietnam
Title Details
Pages: 336
Illustrations: 18 photos
Trim size: 5.500in x 8.500in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 05/06/2002
ISBN: 9-780-8203-2415-9
List Price: $26.95
Remembering Heaven's Face
A Story of Rescue in Wartime Vietnam
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I volunteered to go to Vietnam, but as a conscientious objector to war. . . . While most of these events took place in the midst of the war, this is not exactly a story about the war, but a story of rescue. Most of the children I helped save—scalped, burned, blasted, or shot when I found them—are now adults, parents or even grandparents themselves. . . . And while many of my funny, wise, reckless, young American friends of those days are dead, what they did and what they learned is not. It is as if all of us were being watched, all of us journeying under a brilliant blue sky that is the face of heaven.—from the preface
Remarkable . . . exceptionally well written and moving . . . Few other writers have evoked the physical world of South Vietnam as well as Balaban does in this book.
—USA Today
Unforgettably lyrical.
—New Yorker