Download e-book for kindle: Knife Song Korea: A Novel by Richard Selzer

Knife music Korea chronicles a tumultuous 12 months within the lifetime of Sloane, a tender health professional within the Korean struggle. Drafted into the military and assigned to an artillery unit in a distant rural zone at the edges of the conflict, Sloane needs to deal with harsh dwelling stipulations, a brutal workload, and excessive emotions of non-public isolation. the single physician for miles, he's known as upon to regard not just U.S. army team of workers but additionally the neighborhood Korean inhabitants, for whom he feels either revulsion and pity. because the pressure mounts and the battle strikes nearer, he comes head to head with questions of id, nationality, and private honor. initially written in the course of and soon after Richard Selzer’s personal journey of responsibility in Korea, Knife tune Korea bargains a poetic portrayal of a guy stretched to his limits and past, and the tragic toll warfare takes at the human psyche.

“…Knife tune Korea is an ideal supplement to [Selzer’s] confirmed physique of work—tersely rendered, paced to perfection, seamless in its mixing of affection and knife; it's a tangled love track sung with readability and conviction, a tender man’s tale formed and clarified via the knowledge of age.” — Sewanee Review

“…Certainly this ebook joins such canon furniture as For Whom the Bell Tolls and All Quiet at the Western entrance in its discerning research of battle … every one note, each one metaphor of this e-book revives a Korean warfare that remains pulsating, nonetheless bursting with shouts, grinding gears, and rampant ailment. For an enduring time, a long-lasting work.” — ForeWord Reviews

“…a lapidary paintings of outstanding artistry in addition to a useful addition to the physique of impressive works by way of physician-writers.” — California Literary Review

Richard Selzer is a former general practitioner and professor on the Yale tuition of drugs. he's additionally the writer of many books of brief tales and essays, together with Rituals of surgical procedure; Confessions of a Knife; the precise situation of the Soul; and Letters to a ally edited through Peter Josyph. He has been commemorated with a Guggenheim Fellowship, a countrywide journal Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the yank clinical Writers Award. He lives in New Haven.