This copy has been SIGNED by Robert Olen Butler on the title page. His debut. The "Eden" in this book is a room. The man and the woman in the room have lived in it for almost five years, in love, and in a secrecy forced upon them by a dangerous past: Clifford Wilkes is a deserter, in fact the last American Army deserter left in Saigon; Lanh is an extraordinary woman whose love is enabling her slowly to heal from the bitter life of prostitution to which she had been degraded by foreign troops.