The Things They Carried
Author: Tim O'Brien
Desc: In 1979 Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato—a novel about the Vietnam War—won the National Book Award. In this his second work of fiction about Vietnam O'Brien's unique artistic vision is again clearly demonstrated. Neither a novel nor a short story collection it is an arc of fictional episodes taking place in the childhoods of its characters in the jungles of Vietnam and back home in America two decades later.