Winner of The Independent Foreign Fiction Award, this “hauntingly beautiful novel, written by a North Vietnamese Army veteran, manages to humanize completely a people who up until now have usually been cast as robotic fanatics.” —Sunday Times

The Sorrow of War (War Promo)

Literature & Fiction

Ninh, Bao

Genre Fiction

Vintage Books

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 the Vietcong, revisits the haunting sites of battles and relives a parade of horrors, as he grapples with his ghosts, his alcoholism and attempts to arrange his life in writing. Originally published against government wishes in Vietnam because of its nonheroic, non-ideological tone, Ninh's now classic work has won worldwide acclaim and become an international bestseller.

The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam

United States

Vintage

A North Vietnamese man, Kien, narrates his memories of his youth, the pains of adolescence, his experience of the war, and his attempts, as a struggling writer in postwar Hanoi, to cope with the horrors of war and his own survival. 17,500 first printing.

Pantheon

Vietnam War 1st trade edition paperback, new

Sorrow Of War

Contemporary

RANDOM HOUSE UK

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. Originally published against government wishes in Vietnam because of its nonheroic, nonideological tone, The Sorrow of War has won worldwide acclaim and become an international bestseller.

The Sorrow of War

Literary

Tantor Media, Inc.

Hanoi at Midnight: Stories (Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Series)

Of the twelve short stories appearing in Hà N?i at Midnight, ten are appearing in English for the first time. Bringing to life the full range of B?o Ninh?s inventive and poetic language, Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran are granting to English readers B?o Ninh?s first book-length work since The Sorrow of War. Hà N?i and Midnight delineates the complex outpourings of war and the way it remakes our relation to each other. B?o Ninh?s stories accentuate the gamut of human emotions: nostalgia, anguish, desolation, melancholy, poignancy, and hope. His stories wistfully render pre-war Hà N?i, its peaceful alleys and streets, its courteous residents, and the cozy atmosphere when family members, neighbors, and friends gather around a fire or converse in a coffee shop, as in ?Hà N?i at Midnight? and in ?Reminiscences.? Juxtaposed with this tranquility and geniality are the abandoned areas and defoliated forests occasioned by American bombardment and the American use of Agent Orange, as in ?An Unnamed Star? and ?A Farewell to a Soldier?s Life.? Images of polluted rivers and streams, the war-torn sky, the pungent air filled with the stench of decomposing human corpses, and the deafening roar of helicopters and bombers hovering in the gloomy sky dominate the settings of B?o Ninh?s stories. Intertwined with these horrific images are human tears shed during farewell ceremonies, when recruits are separated from their loved ones, when parents live in anxiety and hope at home while their children are fighting in a war in remote regions, and when soldiers bury their comrades and burden themselves with their fallen comrades? unfulfilled wishes.

Texas Tech University Press

Breaking a thirty-year silence, B&#7843;o Ninh has permitted at last the publication of a new work in English. Ninh is perhaps Vietnam's foremost chronicler of the war, which he joined at age 17. Bringing to life the full range of his inventive and poetic language, Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran are granting to English readers B&#7843;o Ninh's first book-length work since The Sorrow of War, which catapulted him to fame and which was banned in Vietnam until 2006. In Hà N&#7897;i at Midnight, ten stories are appearing in the West for the first time. Juxtaposed with tranquility and geniality are abandoned landscapes and defoliated forests. Polluted rivers and streams, the war-torn sky, pungent air filled with the stench of decomposing human corpses, and the deafening roar of helicopters and bombers hovering in the gloom dominate the settings of B&#7843;o Ninh's stories. Intertwined with these horrific images are human tears shed during farewell ceremonies, when recruits are separated from their loved ones, when parents live in anxiety and hope while their children are fighting in remote regions, and when soldiers bury their comrades and burden themselves with the fallen's unfulfilled wishes. Hà N&#7897;i at Midnight delineates the complex outpourings of war and the way it remakes human relationships.

Die Leiden des Krieges

Mitteldeutscher Verlag

DOLOR DE LA GUERRA, EL

ADULTOS ANTIGUO

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The Sorrow of War (War Promo)

The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam

The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam

Sorrow Of War

The Sorrow of War

Hanoi at Midnight: Stories (Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Series)

Hanoi at Midnight: Stories (Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Series)

Die Leiden des Krieges

DOLOR DE LA GUERRA, EL