With Exiles， his first collection of shorter fiction， the author of the universally acclaimed， best-selling memoir A Rumor of War ("It will make the strongest among us weep"， wrote John Gregory Dunne) sends the reader on a tripartite adventure. First to suburban Connecticut， where a young blue-collar man on the way to his mother s funeral falls in with an upper-crust couple who lavish attention on him and pull him into unexpected dilemmas.Then to Australia s Torres Strait， where a charismatic but troublesome stranger washes ashore into the thick of a struggle for a tiny island s very identity.Then to Vietnam--vintage Caputo territory--where a squad of misfits plunge deep into the jungle in search of the body of their mess sergeant， who has been carried off by a tiger.No matter the backdrop， Philip Caputo s ear for the vernacular is unerring， while his interrogation of human nature--of the deceptions we inflict on ourselves and others--is unflinching. Exiles affirms the remarkable range， the freedom from genre， of a writer whose "meditations on the love and hate of war were hailed by William Styron as "among the most eloquent I have read in modern literature.