After Disasters, Viet Dinh
After Disasters, Viet Dinh
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After Disasters

Author: Viet Dinh

Narrator: Sanjiv Jhaveri

Unabridged: 10 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/01/2016

Synopsis

Finalist for the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.Beautifully and hauntingly written, After Disasters is told through the eyes of four people in the wake of a life-shattering earthquake in India. An intricate story of love and loss weaves together the emotional and intimate narratives of Ted, a pharmaceutical salesman turned member of the Disaster Assistance Response Team; his colleague Piotr, who still carries with him the scars of the Bosnia conflict; Andy, a young firefighter eager to prove his worth; and Dev, a doctor on the ground racing against time and dwindling resources. Through time and place, hope and tragedy, love and lust, these four men put their lives at risk in a country where danger lurks everywhere.O. Henry Prize–winning author Viet Dinh takes us on a moving and evocative journey through an India set with smoky funeral pyres, winding rivers that hold prayers and the deceased, and the rubble of Gujarat, a crumbling place wavering between life and death. As the four men fight to impose order on an increasingly chaotic city, where looting and threats of violence become more severe, they realize the first lives they save might be their own.

About Viet Dinh

Viet Dinh was born in Vietnam and grew up in Colorado. He attended Johns Hopkins University and the University of Houston and currently teaches at the University of Delaware. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Delaware Division of the Arts, as well as an O. Henry Prize. His stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Witness, Fence, Five Points, Chicago Review, the Threepenny Review, and the Greensboro Review.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve

A Kindle First selection worth selecting. A mosaic, a collection of snapshots, seemingly jumbled vignettes of those (committed and dedicated) individuals brought together by disaster through the global community of disaster relief, rapid response, rescue, and aid. Pieced together, there's a story of......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

Not a comfortable book, but an excellent one; Dinh focuses on four men working in disaster recovery. He's giving complex answers to the question of why we serve - why some people run TOWARDS trouble; why folks far away can better grasp and empathize post-disaster when the narrative focuses on a sing......more

Goodreads review by Lisa

I read this as a Kindle First pick, and it's not my usual type of read (as a disclaimer here). Also a disclaimer: It explores male sexuality and that seemed to bother a lot of the Amazon reviewers. I think the author bit off more than he could chew. It screamed "I am trying to be a Serious Literary S......more

Goodreads review by Angie

I often skip the free Kindle First read that is offered each month, but this August offer sounded intriguing, and I made a good choice! Beautifully written story of aid workers in India. Could have been a 5 except that it had a lot of time transitions that were not handled completely smoothly; I didn......more

Goodreads review by S.M.

This is a raw and gritty story set in the aftermath of an earthquake in India. The characters are foreign rescue workers, who arrive to supply aid after a natural disaster. The characters are well developed and all have their different reasons for why they've joined agencies providing disaster relie......more

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