Book description
Kien's job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. He
knows the area well - this was where, in the dry season of 1969, his
battalion was obliterated by American napalm and helicopter gunfire.
Kien was one of only ten survivors. 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'.
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,
The Sorrow of War
is his first novel.
