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Set in the Vietnam War. Kien is responsible for retrieving and burying the dead at the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the war. The novel ranges back to his youth and the pains of adolescent love, and forward, to his attempts to come to terms with the savagery of the war.
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About the Author
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 ten who survived. A huge bestseller in Vietnam, his novel The Sorrow of War won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for 1994.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Vietnamese
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- PublisherMinerva Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0436310422
- ISBN 13 9780436310423
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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