The release date for the English version of 'The Things They Carried' by
Tim O'Brien is Dec 1998. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A groundbreaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the restorative power of narrative, The Things They Carried is a great piece of American literature that has changed people's thoughts and lives ever since it first appeared in print.
The men of Alpha Company are portrayed in The Things They Carried, including Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and Tim O'Brien, a forty-three-year-old writer and father who survived his time in Vietnam.
Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried was a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and France's renowned Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger. It also earned the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize.