'All Quiet on the Western Front for our era' New Statesman
Bao Ninh (Author)
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.
20 years on, [it] had an even greater impact on me than it did
first time around... It is a remarkable and important novel
*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
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
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
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