Sorrow of War

A searing Vietnam War novel set between the battlefields of 1969 and post-war Hanoi.

AvBao Ninh

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Engelska, 2012

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Kien searches the Jungle of Screaming Souls to recover the dead, haunted by the day in 1969 when napalm destroyed his battalion.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 the Vietnam War.Drawing on Bao Ninh’s own service in the North Vietnamese army, The Sorrow of War reveals the lasting psychological cost of survival.

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-02-29
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781448105595
Förlag:Vintage Publishing
Översättare:Frank Palmos, Phan Thanh Hao

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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.

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"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 century, All Quiet on the Western Front. And this is to understate its qualities for, unlike All Quiet, it is a novel abut much more than war. A book about writing, about lost youth, it is also a beautiful agonising love story... a magnificent achievement" -- Independent "This hauntingly beautiful novel, written by a North Vietnamese Army veteran, manages to humanise completely a people who up until now have usually been cast as robotic fanatics" -- Sunday Times "Unputdownable... This book should be required reading for anyone in American politics or policy-making. It should win the Pulitzer Prize, but it won't. It's too gripping for that" -- Guardian