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The Sorrow of War
  • Published: 7 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781784879839
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $28.00
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The Sorrow of War

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Paperback
7 Jan 2025
EBook
29 Feb 2012
Paperback
1 Dec 1994
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This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.


  • Published: 7 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781784879839
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $28.00
Categories:

About the author

Bao Ninh

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. The Sorrow of War is a huge bestseller in Vietnam.
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Praise for The Sorrow of War

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 people who up until now have usually been cast as robotic fanatics

Sunday Times

Unputdownable... This book should be required reading for anyone in American politics or policy-making. It should win the Pulitzer Prize, but it won't. It's too gripping for that

Guardian