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'.
Vorwort
'All Quiet on the Western Front for our era' New Statesman
Autorentext
Kien searches the Jungle of Screaming Souls to recover the dead, haunted by the day in 1969 when napalm destroyed his battalion.
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 the Vietnam War.
Drawing on Bao Ninh's own service in the North Vietnamese army, The Sorrow of War reveals the lasting psychological cost of survival.
Vorwort
'All Quiet on the Western Front for our era' New Statesman
Autorentext
Bao Ninh
Titel
The Sorrow Of War
Untertitel
A searing Vietnam War novel set between the battlefields of 1969 and post-war Hanoi.
Autor
Übersetzer
EAN
9781448105595
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.66 MB
Anzahl Seiten
240
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