The Sorrow of War

Description:

The Sorrow of War - by turns bleak and poetic, pellucid and cunning - opens with Kien, an infantry cadre from Hanoi, engaged in the grim business of retrieving and burying the dead at the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the war. From here, the novel ranges back to Kien's youth and the pains of adolescent love, and moves forward to his attempts, as a struggling writer in postwar Hanoi, to come to grips with the savageries he has witnessed, to make sense of death, love, and loss - and of his own survival.

subjects: Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975,  Fiction,  War stories,  Vietnam War, 1961-1975,  Historical fiction,  Translations into English,  Vietnam War (1961-1975) fast (OCoLC)fst01431664,  Guerra de Vietnam, 1961-1975,  Vietnamese fiction,  Novela,  Vietnamese War stories,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, war & military,  Vietnam war, 1961-1975, fiction,  Vietnam War,  Communism,  Fiction, general,  Novels,  Vietnamese literature,  General

Places: Vietnam

Times: 1970s