The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
Bao Ninh, a former North Vietnamese soldier, provides a strikingly honest look at how the Vietnam War forever changed his life, his country, and the people who live there. Originaly published against government wishes in Vietnam because of its nonheroic, non-ideological tone, The Sorrow of War...
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Bao Ninh, a former North Vietnamese soldier, provides a strikingly honest look at how the Vietnam War forever changed his life, his country, and the people who live there. Originaly published against government wishes in Vietnam because of its nonheroic, non-ideological tone, The Sorrow of War has won worldwide acclaim and become an international bestseller
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781573225434 (1573225436)
ASIN: 1573225436
Publish date: 1996-04-01
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
War,
Military,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Fiction
An outstanding book from the North Vietnamese perspective during the American war and after. I teach this with O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" and the similarities are many, yet they are clearly different books. Ninh has a challenging writing style to get into, but once you are in it is easy to ...
Th���t l�� ��m ���nh."B��y gi��� ����y ch��� c�� n���i bu���n, m��nh mang n���i bu���n - n���i bu���n �������c s���ng s��t, n���i bu���n chi���n tranh."
Kien is a survivor of the Viet Nam war, a North Vietnamese survivor. This book is written by a North Vietnamese writer and clearly evokes much of his experience in what was a much longer war for the Vietnamese than it was for Americans. The similarities between the affects of war on all sides are cl...
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