- Taschenbuch: 224 Seiten
- Verlag: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd (31. Januar 1994)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0436310422
- ISBN-13: 978-0436310423
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19 x 13 x 1,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.6 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (20 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 778.190 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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A novel addition to fiction from the Indochina conflict, this quasi-autobiographical story depicts a North Vietnamese infantryman trying to purge his grisly memories through writing. Sitting in his dingy Hanoi room, drinking day after day away, the central character, Kien, records in no set order his enlistment into the army, the bombing of his troop train, hellish firefights and napalming in the Central Highlands (an area superstitiously dubbed by Kien's comrades the "Jungle of the Screaming Souls"), his escape from an American patrol after the Tet offensive of '68, combat in Saigon's fall in '75, and his memory-piquing work on a postwar MIA detail. Each chunk of experience jostles the other, an intentional echo of the writer's struggle to describe the chaotic, while simultaneously attempting to find his own authorial voice. Thus Bao Ninh's work is half about war. If there is a message, it is that a survivor's reconciliation with savage memory is impossible--perhaps not the most original idea in war novels, but one worth hearing from the ex-enemy. Gilbert Taylor
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These two novelists, both of whom fought for North Vietnam, offer American readers a startlingly different perspective on the war.
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This is a disturbing and deeply shocking novel about a vietnamese soldier whose life was completely destroyed by the war and its aftermath. Being the last survivor of his former regiment, Kien struggles to come along with his horrifying memories of the wartime. His efforts to return to his pre-war life and to warm up his old relationsship with his former sweetheart Phuong remain hopeless. Furthermore he is unable to stop these haunting nightmares although he starts writing down his terrible memories to forget them.
The reader of this book gets an ruthless look into a soldiers life in wartime. It is about murder and rape, pain and agony and the loss of countless friends and relatives.
But nevertheless this is also a book about a agonizing love story. In many of Kiens memories, which appear in the novel, his lover Phuong plays a main role. It describes their happy time in Hanoi before the war and it is simply hurting to see how they are torn apart for so many years and how their relationship fades.
This is not a book about the war but a book which describes in a very personal, intimate way, how one individual is destroyed by the war. There are quite a few, very bloody battlefield scenes, but the main part of the book is about Kien, trying to manage his life, which was dominated by the war. Throughout the whole story, permanent backviews to the times before, during and after the war interrupt Kiens dull present existence in Hanoi. So the reader takes part in Kiens ghoulish and often insane thoughts and memories, haunting him all the time.
Everyone who reads this novel will be reminded how totally insane war is. You learn what dramatic destinies are behind every single soldier and their loved ones. It is shocking to read how one existence, once happy and with great perspectives, is completely wiped out.
For people who want to know something about the war and its political backgrounds this is not the right book. But for people who want to or should know, what is behind all those stories and headlines and who want to know what it meant being a soldier, this book is a must.
The reader of this book gets an ruthless look into a soldiers life in wartime. It is about murder and rape, pain and agony and the loss of countless friends and relatives.
But nevertheless this is also a book about a agonizing love story. In many of Kiens memories, which appear in the novel, his lover Phuong plays a main role. It describes their happy time in Hanoi before the war and it is simply hurting to see how they are torn apart for so many years and how their relationship fades.
This is not a book about the war but a book which describes in a very personal, intimate way, how one individual is destroyed by the war. There are quite a few, very bloody battlefield scenes, but the main part of the book is about Kien, trying to manage his life, which was dominated by the war. Throughout the whole story, permanent backviews to the times before, during and after the war interrupt Kiens dull present existence in Hanoi. So the reader takes part in Kiens ghoulish and often insane thoughts and memories, haunting him all the time.
Everyone who reads this novel will be reminded how totally insane war is. You learn what dramatic destinies are behind every single soldier and their loved ones. It is shocking to read how one existence, once happy and with great perspectives, is completely wiped out.
For people who want to know something about the war and its political backgrounds this is not the right book. But for people who want to or should know, what is behind all those stories and headlines and who want to know what it meant being a soldier, this book is a must.
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One of the best books on any subject I have ever read. Like a previous reviewer I bought a copy from a poor child on the streets of Saigon out of convenience not intending to read it. What a loss that would have been. There's more than one side to every story-the perspective here is humanity.
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I bought a xeroxed copy of "The Sorrow of War" from a young street urchin in Saigon out of convenience. I didn't expect to read it - I just wanted to get to a restaurant and relax after a very humid, hot day. I planned to just dump it. But the book floored me. The disenchanted author conveys the macabre aspects of that long "American War", the pointless sacrifices of lives, and all the false promises once believed in youth. A brutal, bleak, and brilliant work. The Sorrow of War revealed the back story to what I was seeing in Saigon - North Vietnam may have won the won, but the people of Vietnam and America lost lives, limbs, and loves. "Everyone experienced difficult, painful, and different fates."
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The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
Powerful, unforgettable. Truly universalizes the human condition. The characters are people, just like you, just like me; not the "enemies" we've seen depicted in... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
Pulitzer Prize Material!
Truly a novel worthy of the Pulitzer Prize. Perhaps the finest book I have ever read concerning the Vietnam war. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Januar 2000 von P. Mullins
A great detalied book!
Most times when you hear about Vietnam you think of some jungle place where Americans fought a war. But in the book,Sorrows Of War by Bao Ninh, you can really undrerstand what... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. November 1999 veröffentlicht
An exceptional book, it made me cry
I read this book with hesitation, but after the first page I was hooked. As a Marine SSgt.,I fought against this enemy in 68 and 69 and was there in Saigon when he took over in... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. November 1999 veröffentlicht
A good depiction of the North's view of the war
In whole, I believe that this book gives a very vivid description of a Northern Vietnamese soldier's encounter with the war; however, I found the book to be somewhat confusing in... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
a must read for anyone interested in Vietnam
I read this book in a college Asian Studies course at St. Olaf College. It was interesting to read the perspective of a soldier who fought for the "other side" after... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Mai 1999 von Stephanie E. Nyhof (rnyhof@iserv.net)
A Haunting Classic
Bao Ninh's novel is aptly titled because there's hardly a scene in his episodic book that isn't tinged with sorrow. Many are downright horrific. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
A vivid view from the 'enemy' perspective.
This story provided a view of North Vietnamese teenagers' life as he became involved in the war with the South and ultimately the U. S. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. Mai 1999 von SM
Beautiful metaphor of the continuing division
This book is an extended metaphor embodied in a haunting love story between a North Vietnamese soldier, Kien, who fights the entire war in the South, and his faithless, promiscuous... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. März 1999 von James Chaffee
One of the best novels I've ever read.
A very moving and complex, multilayered postmodern novel. I was lucky enough to read it some years ago; a friend in England sent it over, before it appeared in America. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. März 1999 von Joe Haldeman
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