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...inhabitants of Buon Yun supplement their spare diet of present comforts with the rich legends from a past that is never very far behind them. The birth of each child precipitates a search for the proper dewdrop, containing the spirit of the appropriate ancestor, to place on its tongue. Spirits swarm through the village, susceptible to human requests but never recriminations; when disasters occur they only mean that the prayers of the living have been improperly presented. A'de, their creator, is still in his heaven, holding Buon Yun up by means of a sturdy rope...
...dangles the village perilously close to Cambodian supply routes favored by the Viet Cong, and the blades of arriving American helicopters threaten to snip Buon Yun from its mooring. A detachment of twelve U.S. soldiers settles in to protect the village from...
Most of the characters in Jonathan Rubin's The Barking Deer are members of the Rhade tribe, one of the largest (it numbers about 100,000 people) and most culturally "advanced" of all the tribes. Rubin's novel, set in 1964, involves an attack on the Rhade village of Buon Yun by the National Liberation Front...
...RUBIN'S BUON YUN has had to make some adaptations to modern Vietnam: for instance, it's encircled by rows of fire-hardened bamboo spikes and anti-personnel mines set between two fences of nine-foot wooden stakes. But inside, people live much as they always have--the way the French travelers and the American Army's books said they lived, and the way Rubin knew them as a sergeant in the U.S. Special Forces from 1962 to 1964. There are about 30 longhouses in the village, with wooden piles underneath them to keep out floods and give the pigs...
...terrified of his astrology chart and unwilling to endanger his career by resisting an NLF attack. It becomes apparent, slowly (but quicker than it should, since Rubin at his subtlest is pretty elephantine), that these and other people's interaction is building towards a catastrophe: the destruction of Buon Yun and the American soldiers it welcomed at the hands of an NLF assault team and a miscalculating American bomber pilot...