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The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli [Soli, Tatjana] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Lotus Eaters about?
Tatjana Soli’s haunting debut novel begins where it ought to end. In this quietly mesmerizing book about journalists covering the war in Vietnam, the first glimpses of the place are the most familiar. The year is 1975. Americans are in a state of panic as North Vietnamese forces prepare to occupy Saigon. The looters, the desperate efforts to escape this war zone, the mobs surrounding the United States Embassy, the overcrowded helicopters struggling to rise above the chaos: these images seem to introduce Ms. Soli’s readers to a story they already know. "[A] splendid first novel...Helen’s restlessness and grappling, her realization that "a woman sees war differently," provide a new and fascinating perspective on Vietnam. Vivid battle scenes, sensual romantic entanglements and elegant writing add to the pleasures of "The Lotus Eaters." Soli’s hallucinatory vision of wartime Vietnam seems at once familiar and new. The details – the scorched villages, the rancid smells of Saigon – arise naturally, underpinning the novel’s sharp realism and characterization. In an author’s note, Soli writes that she’s been an "eager reader of every book" about Vietnam she has come across, but she is neve
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Tatjana Soli [Soli, Tatjana]
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (521 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14