Into a Black Sun (English and Japanese Edition)

By Takeshi Kaikō

Book Overview

Into A Black Sun blurs the line between literature and journalism, drawing on his experiences as a war correspondent in Vietnam to present an immersive depiction of the war. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087011428X
• ISBN13: 9780870114281
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Kodansha USA Inc
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Japanese correspondent covers the war in Vietnam

This may be the best book written about the American involvement in Vietnam. The smells, the mood, the feeling of Saigon all vibrate through these pages. Poetic, deeply insightful, moving; it conveys the hopelessness of the American effort in the most human terms, through the eyes of a romantic foreign correspondent. Though set in 1964-65, Kaiko seems to get the essence of the war, long before it played out. A brilliant book.