Sorrow of war

Informationen zum Autor Bao Ninh Klappentext Bao Ninh was one of 500 hundred men who served with the Glorious 27th Youth Brigade, but was also one of the only 10 who survived. This is his autobiographical novel, and will appeal to fans of Wilfred Owen and such titles as "All Quiet on the Western Front". Zusammenfassung Kien’s job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. 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

• 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 / Softback
• Released: 17.10.1994
• EAN: 9780749397111
• ISBN: 978-0-7493-9711-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Vietnam, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Historical / General, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Modern and contemporary fiction, c 1960 to c 1969, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Vietnam War fiction, Fiction based on or inspired by true events