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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I had expected another Chee or Leaphorn story. This is more of an adventure, than a mystery. The story is set at the tail end of the Vietnam war, the protagonist, Moon Methias, is searching for the daughter of his deceased brother. In the process of finding his neice, he also finds himself. The book is about him remaking himself through adventure that mounts, he persists in spite of himself. The reader is lead to believe the search is for the child, but much if it is about himself. (  ) Nodosaurus | Nov 9, 2009 |  Set in Southeast Asia, this novel is a departure from Mr. Hillerman's Navajo mysteries. Moon Mathias has let his past mistakes keep him from seeing his true self. As the title suggests, his experiences looking for his orphaned niece during the chaos at the end of the Vietnam War are a springboard into who he really is, not who he thinks he is. There's plenty of tension and misery in the novel, along with some subtle romance and genuine humanity in the midst of wartime insanity. (  ) tjsjohanna | Oct 9, 2009 | Moon Mathias lives with a great grief. He is determined not to fail again, but at what cost? This time he must go into Vietnam and Cambodia in an effort to find his niece and bring her out, but both countries are in the midst of upheaval and turmoil. It is 1975, America is pulling out of Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge are just beginning their cleansing, while everyone else seems to be fleeing danger, Moon must discover if he is to walk right into it. I learned a lot from this book, mostly the timing of events, but also cultural details and the sad facts of the failure of America in this time of history. Now, this is not a detailed account of the war or its causes, it simply mentions things in passing and looks at them more as someone who was living in the moment might have seen them. The author chose to create a brief tale of action rather than a long novel and it works well that way. It is not a mystery. (  ) MrsLee | Feb 14, 2009 | Different, but ok. ( ) SofiaAndersson | Jul 21, 2008 | Malcolm (aka Moon) searched for his niece in Vietnam after his brother died. His mother had a serious heart attach, preventing her from going. Two other individuals searching for their own needs joined him. He fell in love with one of them and proposed. ( ) saucecav | Jun 10, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0060177721, Hardcover)This is Tony Hillerman's latest novel -- and hisbest audio by far. He departs from his trademark terrain of Navajo mysteriesto a story he has wanted to tell for decades.Ricky Mathias, an American pilot, dies in the last days of the Vietnam War,his infant daughter orphaned somewhere in southeast Asia. Her uncle Malcolm'Moon' Mathias must set aside his job as a newspaper editor and his naggingself doubt to find the little girl. From the streets of Manila, to a ruralcockfight, into a Filipino prison on Palawan Island, and, finally acrossthe South China Sea to where Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge is turning Cambodia intokilling fields and Communist rockets are beginning to fall on the outskirtsof Saigon. Finding Moon is many things: a latter-day adventure epic, a deftlyorchestrated romance, an arrested portrait of an exotic realm engulfed inturmoil, and a neatly turned tale of suspense. Most of all its a singularstory of how a plain, uncertain man can achieve genuine heroism by battlinghis fears to find his best self. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:58 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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