New Book Release: ...the smell of piss an' shit in his pants Paperback – by T. Wignesan

June 9, 2015 - PRLog -- Paperback: 120 pages
Publisher: Cyberwit.net (June 3, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 8182535883
ISBN-13: 978-8182535886

Cyberwit.net is proud to present ...the smell of piss an' shit in his pants Paperback – June 3, 2015 by T. Wignesan (Author). This is the story of a Vietnam War veteran. It would hardly be appropriate to use the word veteran for one so young, for when Ulixes was de-mobbed he was only twenty-two. He was born in the borough of Queens and grew up mainly there and in Brooklyn, New York, before being conscripted at twenty. In all he had spent a year and 67 days in Vietnam during which time he saw action as a foot-soldier. On three occasions, he and his patrol were ambushed by the Viet-Cong and North Vietnamese regular army personnel. There were seven other skirmishes as well. The first time a month after his arrival on October 1st, 1968, he went through the shock of seeing and handling mashed-up and dismembered bodies of his buddies while staving off an attack from the Viet Cong. The second took place two months later during the Mini Tet Offensive at Long Ogygia Base on the Cambodian border and lasted some twelve hours. He killed two North Vietnamese Army personnel; one with his M16 and another with his Ka-Bar knife. He sustained no great injuries himself; that is, not visibly on his person, but the scars of shock and fear were scorched deep under his fatigues and skin and rose with time to render his life a vacant yet furies-filled passage between the embattled three-room quarters he occupies and the Veterans' Hospital. On the psychologist and psychiatrists' cards he remains tagged as a post-traumatic stress (PTS) case. Is he a hero? Or an anti-hero? Or just a victim of circumstances? A pawn on the chess-board moved by invisible hands? Judge for yourself.

THE AUTHOR

T.WIGNESAN: Born in Kuala Krai, Malaysia. Worked and studied from the age of 8 (short interregnum: 1946-49). Up to his twenty-first year grew up in Singapore, Port Swettenham, Klang, Sungei Rengam, Kuala Lumpur, Madras, Seremban, Kuala Lumpur; then in London, Heidelberg, West Berlin, Schwäbisch Hall, London, Madrid and Paris. Founder-Editor: The Journal of Comparative Poietics(Paris:1989); Founder-Editor of the journals: The Journal of Comparative Poïetics and The Asianists’ Asia.

“Deprived of his citizenship rights in Malaysia and invited to leave the country in 1962, he was forced to revert to British colonial status, but his new British passport was confiscated by the British Consul in Madrid, Spain, in November 1967, and the Spanish authorities then obliged him to declare himself a Stateless Person while refusing to grant him the statutory Travel Document, prescribed by the United Nations.”

...the smell of piss an' shit in his pants (Paperback) published by Cyberwit.net is available worldwide via Amazon USA through publisher's site. The book is also available in India at Flipkart, Amazon.in and Infibeam. http://www.cyberwit.net/publications/785