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Kien's job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. This book is his attempt to understand the eleven years of his life he gave to a senseless war. Based on true experiences of Bao Ninh and banned by the communist party, this novel is revered as the 'All Quiet on the Western Front for our era'.
 
 
 
 

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20 years on, [it] had an even greater impact on me than it did first time around... It is a remarkable and important novel -- Jamie Byng - Herald

The Sorrow of War 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 on the Western Front. And this is to understate its qualities for, unlike All Quiet, it is a novel abut much more than war. A book about writing, about lost youth, it is also a beautiful agonising love story... a magnificent achievement -- Independent

This hauntingly beautiful novel, written by a North Vietnamese Army veteran, manages to humanise completely a p
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  • ISBN: 9780749397111
  • Author: Bao Ninh
  • Publisher: Vintage Classics
  • Pages: 240
  • Format: Paperback
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Kien's job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. This book is his attempt to understand the eleven years of his life he gave to a senseless war. Based on true experiences of Bao Ninh and banned by the communist party, this novel is revered as the 'All Quiet on the Western Front for our era'.
 
 
 
 

Review

20 years on, [it] had an even greater impact on me than it did first time around... It is a remarkable and important novel -- Jamie Byng - Herald

The Sorrow of War 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 on the Western Front. And this is to understate its qualities for, unlike All Quiet, it is a novel abut much more than war. A book about writing, about lost youth, it is also a beautiful agonising love story... a magnificent achievement -- Independent

This hauntingly beautiful novel, written by a North Vietnamese Army veteran, manages to humanise completely a p

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