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...interest. Roth jumbles in more characters--the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld (who actually exists); his cousin Apter, a slow-witted artist and Holocaust survivor (who doesn't): George Ziad, an old graduate school friend who is now a militant Palistinian living on the West bank; Jinx Possesski, Pipik's Polish nurse and girlfriend (who is a recovering anti-Semite enrolled in Pipik's Anti-Semites Anonymous) and Jonathan Pollard, the American convicted of spying for Israel...
...America. Based on a comparison of various parts of the translation with the original, it appears the translators remain true to, if not enhance, Duong's provocative voice. Since she began writing at 28, Duong has achieved literary acclaim in Vietnam, but her style and skills still lack polish. Her upbringing is not that of a writer or intellectual; she has gained her knowledge through sensitive and personal observations which she has transformed into powerful images...
...have sparked only resentment and enmity. The most disastrous incident occurred at the most important affair so far, a White House reception in honor of the opening of the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Scheduled to be there at 4 p.m., the President arrived 2 1/2 hours late. By that time, Polish President Lech Walesa, entertainer Mandy Patinkin, House Speaker Tom Foley and others had long run out of anything to say to one another and were squishing in the mud under a tent in a driving rain. Many of the older guests, Holocaust survivors, had left in disgust...
Well, it wasn't. Yes, the Germans considered the Poles an inferior race. They invaded, abused, violated and socially decapitated the Poles. But they did not issue a death sentence and track down for gassing every child of Polish descent. That treatment was reserved for the Jews...
...week, several old Vietnam hands, including former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, said they were impressed with its apparent authenticity. Brzezinski went even further, publicly speculating that the Vietnamese were guilty of a massacre similar to the infamous execution of 4,500 Polish officers by the Soviet secret police in the Katyn Forest in 1940. Said Delores Apodaca Alfond, president of the National Alliance of Families, an organization that has long accused both Washington and Hanoi of duplicity on the POW-MIA issue: "Finally, we've found the smoking gun. It all seems...