The Sorrow of War

Based on the true experiences of Bao Ninh and banned by the communist party, The Sorrow of War 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. ''A book about writing, about lost youth, it is also a beautiful agonising love story... a magnificent achievement'' Independent TRANSLATED BY FRANK PALMOS AND PHAN THANH HAO This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.

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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

Product details

• Authors: Bao Ninh, Ninh Bao
• Assisted by: Phan Thanh Hao (Translation), Hao Phan Thanh (Translation), Frank Palmos (Translation), Palmos Frank (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.10.2024
• EAN: 9781784879839
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-983-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Vintage War; Against War
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Vietnam, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Biographical, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, c 1960 to c 1969, Vietnam War fiction, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II