The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam - Paperback
by Bao Ninh
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Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780525562849ISBN-10:525562842UPC:9780525562849Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:War & Military, Literary, BiographicalSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCCPJSZ9RX
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780525562849ISBN-10:525562842UPC:9780525562849Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:War & Military, Literary, BiographicalSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCCPJSZ9RX
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.
Publisher: Vintage
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