Based on the true experiences of Bao Ninh and banned by the communist party The Sorrow of War
is revered as the 'All Quiet on the Western Front for our era'. 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. 'A book about writing about lost youth it is also a
beautiful agonising love story... a magnificent achievement' IndependentTRANSLATED BY FRANK
PALMOS AND PHAN THANH HAOThis 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.
