Bao Ninh: 2 books
The Sorrow of War
A Novel of North Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
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...
On the Banks of the Ya Crong Poco River
from The Sorrow of War
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
From the daring and controversial autobiographical novel that took the world by storm—the harrowing opening section of The Sorrow of War. 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...