The Deep Green Sea

Robert Olen Butler

Original title: The deep green sea

earliest edition we have, 1997 Penguin Random House, 1999

In The Deep Green Sea, Robert Olen Butler has created a memorable and incandescent love story between a contemporary Vietnamese woman orphaned in 1975, when Saigon finally fell to the Communists, and a Vietnam veteran who returns from America to a once war-torn land, seeking closure and a measure of peace. Bit by bit they learn more of each other's pasts. Secrets are revealed: Ben's love affair with a Vietnamese pro...

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Editions we hold

Deep Green Sea edition · 2013 · Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 240 pages · 9780802120960
Deep Green Sea edition · 2013 · Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 9780802193490
Das Meer so grün. paperback · 2000 · Goldmann · 190 pages · 9783442541232
Deep Green Sea paperback · 1999 · Secker & Warburg · 176 pages · 9780436220746
The Deep Green Sea paperback · 1999 · Holt Paperbacks · 240 pages · 9780805060010
Deep Green Sea edition · 1999 · Penguin Random House · 9780099274940
The deep green sea edition · 1998 · Secker & Warburg · 226 pages
The deep green sea edition · 1998 · G.K. Hall · 216 pages
The deep green sea edition · 1997 · Henry Holt · 226 pages

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