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by Bao Ninh (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (17 Oct 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 074939711X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749397111
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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This is the semi-autobiographical account of a soldier's experiences. The hero of the story, Kien, is a captain. After 10 years of war and months as a MIA body-collector, Kien suffers a nervous breakdown in Hanoi as he tries to re-establish a relationship with his former sweetheart.


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WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION AWARD. 'A magnificent achievement...takes its place alongside the greatest war novel of the century, All Quiet on the Western Front' Independent --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the greatest war novels from a century of war, 16 Nov 2003
By Gareth Smyth "Enjilos" (Beirut) - See all my reviews
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Deeply moving account of war beginning as one of the few survivors of a Vietnamese unit looks for the bodies of dead comrades in the Jungle of Lost Souls - haunted by those who have died. And yet there are other ghosts - those who have lived but are carrying mental and emotional anguish, numbness and hopelessness.
Surely one of the greatest war novels to come out of a century of war, and should be essential reading for political leaders who think construction is as easy as destruction. A book that moves you to tears but somehow makes you more alive, and a tribute in a way to the resilience of the Vietnamese people in the face of barely imaginable horror.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Most moving story ever written, 25 Jul 2001
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Having visited Vietnam I was impressed with the way the author wrote truthfully about the war and the impact upon the individual. Well worth reading if you want an insight into what really happened during this traumatic and horrendous time of Vietnamese history.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A War Novel Without Hate, 9 Feb 2007
By Allan Cameron "An Rubhach" (Western Isles) - See all my reviews
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This novel is both a remarkable work of literature (most importantly the translation is of an unusually high quality) and an account of the misery of war by someone who had clearly experienced it first-hand. The author is not interested in ideological self-justification (perhaps that is not necessary, given the nature of the onslaught suffered by this small nation), and it is indeed a novel written in sorrow and not in anger. If someone were only to read two books on Vietnam and the related conflict in Cambodia, I would suggest this one and The Gate, a harrowing factual account by someone who against all odds came out of one of Pol Pot's death camps alive.
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