Run me to earth : a novel /
Yoon, Paul,
Run me to earth : a novel / Paul Yoon. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - viii, 259 pages ; 19 cm
"Alisak, Prany, and Noi--three orphans united by devastating loss - must do what is necessary to survive the perilous landscape of 1960s Laos. When they take shelter in a bombed out field hospital, they meet Vang, a doctor dedicated to helping the wounded at all costs. Soon the teens are serving as motorcycle couriers, delicately navigating their bikes across the fields filled with unexploded bombs, beneath the indiscriminate barrage from the sky. In a world where the landscape and the roads have turned into an ocean of bombs, we follow their grueling days of rescuing civilians and searching for medical supplies, until Vang secures their evacuation on the last helicopters leaving the country. It's a move with irrevocable consequences--and sets them on disparate and treacherous paths across the world"--Publisher.
9781501154041 1501154044 9781501154058 1501154052
2019013516
Orphans--Fiction.
Physicians--Laos--Fiction.
Guerrilla couriers--Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Evacuation of civilians--Fiction.
Laotians--Fiction.
Laos--History--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.
Run me to earth : a novel / Paul Yoon. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - viii, 259 pages ; 19 cm
"Alisak, Prany, and Noi--three orphans united by devastating loss - must do what is necessary to survive the perilous landscape of 1960s Laos. When they take shelter in a bombed out field hospital, they meet Vang, a doctor dedicated to helping the wounded at all costs. Soon the teens are serving as motorcycle couriers, delicately navigating their bikes across the fields filled with unexploded bombs, beneath the indiscriminate barrage from the sky. In a world where the landscape and the roads have turned into an ocean of bombs, we follow their grueling days of rescuing civilians and searching for medical supplies, until Vang secures their evacuation on the last helicopters leaving the country. It's a move with irrevocable consequences--and sets them on disparate and treacherous paths across the world"--Publisher.
9781501154041 1501154044 9781501154058 1501154052
2019013516
Orphans--Fiction.
Physicians--Laos--Fiction.
Guerrilla couriers--Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Evacuation of civilians--Fiction.
Laotians--Fiction.
Laos--History--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.