by Bao Ninh
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 ...
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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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