Books like Going After Cacciato
A soldier named Cacciato walks away from the war in Vietnam, saying he is going to Paris, and his squad is sent after him across eight thousand miles.
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Sleepwalking Land
During Mozambique's civil war, an old man, Tuahir, and a boy, Muidinga, take shelter in a burnt-out bus, where the boy finds the notebooks of a dead man, Kindzu, and reads them aloud.
The Things They Carried
A platoon of American soldiers carries physical and emotional weight through the Vietnam War, in stories that blur the line between truth and fiction.
The Tiger's Wife
Natalia, a young doctor in an unnamed Balkan country after the wars, learns that her grandfather has died far from home, and goes back over the stories he told her of the tiger's wife and the deathless man.
The Sorrow of War
A North Vietnamese soldier writes a novel from memories of the American War and lost love.
Paco's Story
Paco Sullivan, the only survivor of a massacre of his company in Vietnam, gets off a bus in a small Texas town, scarred and limping, and takes a job washing dishes.
Highways to a War
Mike Langford, an Australian combat photographer, disappears in Cambodia in 1976, and his oldest friend pieces his story together from the tapes he left behind.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
A man searching for his missing wife is drawn into a surreal underworld of psychic prostitutes, political assassins, and a well that leads somewhere else entirely.
Tree of Smoke
A CIA operative, a missionary, and a Vietnamese double agent move through the fog of the Vietnam War, where no one's motives are what they seem.
One of Ours
Claude Wheeler, a restless Nebraska farm boy who feels he was meant for something larger, finds it when America enters the First World War.
The Flanders Road
Georges, a cavalryman captured in the French collapse of 1940, tries to piece together the death of his captain, a distant relative, shot from ambush during the rout.
Confession of the Lioness
In Kulumani, a village in northern Mozambique, lions are killing women, and Archangel Bullseye, a hunter from the city, is sent to kill them, while Mariamar, whose sister was the latest victim, tells her own story.
Return to Ithaca
Odysseus, worn out by twenty years of war and wandering, washes up among the Phaeacians and makes his way home to Ithaca, where suitors are eating through his house.