The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam

The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam - Paperback

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The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam - Paperback

The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam - Paperback

by Bao Ninh
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The daring and controversial novel that took the world by storm--a story of politics, selfhood, survival, and war.

Heart-wrenching, fragmented, raw, former North Vietnamese solder Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War provides a strikingly honest look at how the Vietnam War forever changed his life, his country, and the people who live there. Kien, a lone survivor from the Glorious 27th Youth brigade of the Vietcong, revisits the haunting sites of battles and relives a parade of horrors, as he grapples with his ghosts, his alcoholism and attempts to arrange his life in writing. Originally published against government wishes in Vietnam because of its nonheroic, non-ideological tone, Ninh's now classic work has won worldwide acclaim and become an international bestseller.
ISBN9780525562849
Author Bao Ninh
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2018
LanguageENG- English
Pages240
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeLarge Print

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The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam - Paperback

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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 the ten who survived. A huge bestseller in Vietnam, The Sorrow of War won The Independent Foreign Fiction Award for 1994. It is Bao Ninh's first novel.

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