THINGS THEY CARRIED

The million-copy bestseller which is a ground-breaking meditation on war memory imagination and the redemptive power of storytelling.‘The Things They Carried’ is on its surface a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it has the cumulative power and unity of a novel with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme.But while Vietnam is central to ‘The Things They Carried’ it is not simply a book about war. It is also a book about the human heart – about the terrible weight of those things we carry through our lives.