{"product_id":"the-sorrow-of-war-9780749397111","title":"The Sorrow of War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKien'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Based on true experiences of Bao Ninh and banned by the communist party, this novel is revered as the \u003ci\u003eAll Quiet on the Western Front\u003c\/i\u003e for our era'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e20 years on, [it] had an even greater impact on me than it did first time around... It is a remarkable and important novel -- Jamie Byng * Herald *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sorrow of War\u003c\/i\u003e vaults over all the American fiction that came out of the Vietnam war to take its place alongside the greatest war novel of the century, \u003ci\u003eAll Quiet on the Western Front\u003c\/i\u003e. And this is to understate its qualities for, unlike \u003ci\u003eAll Quiet\u003c\/i\u003e, it is a novel abut much more than war. A book about writing, about lost youth, it is also a beautiful agonising love story... \u003cb\u003ea magnificent achievement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis \u003cb\u003ehauntingly beautiful novel\u003c\/b\u003e, written by a North Vietnamese Army veteran, manages to humanise completely a people who up until now have usually been cast as robotic fanatics\u003cbr\u003eUnputdownable... This book should be required reading for anyone in American politics or policy-making. It should win the Pulitzer Prize, but it won't. It's too gripping for that","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48736690700631,"sku":"9780749397111","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780749397111.jpg?v=1723810757","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-sorrow-of-war-9780749397111","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}