by Karl Marlantes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781848874954
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«Matterhorn» is Karl Marlantes's Vietnam War novel, published by Corvus in paperback (600 pages, in English).
Lieutenant Waino Mellas and his company Bravo are sent to the mountainous jungle of Vietnam. There they must fight against the North Vietnamese and against the mud, leeches, disease and hunger, as well as racial tension, conflicting ambitions and unreliable superior officers.
First novel by Karl Marlantes, a Marine Corps veteran; won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Colby Award.
Suitable for readers of war and historical fiction interested in the Vietnam War.
Karl Arthur Marlantes is an American author and Vietnam War veteran. He has written four books: Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War (2010), What It Is Like to Go to War (2011), Deep River (2019), and Cold Victory (2024).
