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The Sorrow of War
Bao Ninh
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Description for The Sorrow of War
Paperback. Kien's job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. He knows the area well - this was where, in the dry season of 1969, his battalion was obliterated by American napalm and helicopter gunfire. Kien was one of only ten survivors. This book is his attempt to understand the eleven years of his life he gave to a senseless war. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FJMV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178.
Kien's job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. He knows the area well - this was where, in the dry season of 1969, his battalion was obliterated by American napalm and helicopter gunfire. Kien was one of only ten survivors. This book is his attempt to understand the eleven years of his life he gave to a senseless war. Based on true experiences of Bao Ninh and banned by the communist party, this novel is revered as the `All Quiet on the Western Front for our era'.
Kien's job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. He knows the area well - this was where, in the dry season of 1969, his battalion was obliterated by American napalm and helicopter gunfire. Kien was one of only ten survivors. This book is his attempt to understand the eleven years of his life he gave to a senseless war. Based on true experiences of Bao Ninh and banned by the communist party, this novel is revered as the `All Quiet on the Western Front for our era'.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749397111
SKU
9780749397111
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99-7
About Bao Ninh
Bao Ninh was born in Hanoi in 1952. During the Vietnam war he served with the Glorious 27th Youth Brigade. Of the five hundred who went to war with the brigade in 1969, he is one of ten who survived. A huge bestseller in Vietnam, The Sorrow of War is his first novel.
Reviews for The Sorrow of War
20 years on, [it] had an even greater impact on me than it did first time around... It is a remarkable and important novel
Jamie Byng
Herald
The Sorrow of War vaults over all the American fiction that came out of the Vietnam war to take its place alongside the greatest war novel of the ... Read more
Jamie Byng
Herald
The Sorrow of War vaults over all the American fiction that came out of the Vietnam war to take its place alongside the greatest war novel of the ... Read more