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During the Vietnam War Bao Ninh served with the Glorious 27th Youth Brigade. Of the five hundred men who went to war with the brigade in 1969, he is one of only ten who survived. The Sorrow of War is his autobiographical novel. Kien works in a unit that recovers soldiers’ corpses. Revisiting the sites of battles raises emotional ghosts for him and the memory of war scenes are juxtaposed with dreams & remembrances of his childhood sweetheart. The Sorrow of War burns the tragedy of war in our minds. “The first critical portrayal of life in the North Vietnamese army ever to appear in Vietnam . . . The censors were evidently moved by the book’s unflinching sincerity and Ninh’s literary gifts.” —Time “Vaults over all the American fiction that came out of the Vietnam War to take its place alongside the greatest war novel of the century, All Quiet onthe Western Front. And this is to understate its qualities, for, unlike All Quiet, it is a novel about much more than war. A book about writing, about lost youth, it is also a beautiful, agonizing love story.”—The Independent Bao Ninh was born in Hanoi in 1952. During the Vietnam War he served with the Glorious 27th Youth Brigade. Of the f

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Author

Bao Ninh, Phan Thanh Hao (translation), Frank Palmos (editor)

Publisher

Anchor Books, Penguin Random House

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780525562597

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, War & Military Fiction

Rating

3.99 / 5 (2,991 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14