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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.
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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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- PublisherPantheon
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0679439617
- ISBN 13 9780679439615
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages233
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