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Cover of "The Sorrow of War" by Bao Ninh. Color photo of a green forest scene above, a brown band with the subtitle, and a black-and-white photo of vietnamese people looking at a burning village in the distance below.
The Sorrow of War
A Novel of North Vietnam

Publication Details

Type: Book
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1993
Translated From: Vietnamese

Reading Details

Pages: 233

Highlights

First Paragraph:

On the banks of the Ya Crong Poco river, on the northern flank of the B3 battlefield in the Central Highlands, the Missing In Action Remains-Gathering Team awaits the dry season of 1975.