The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam.

NINH, Bao.

Item Number: 108002

New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.

First edition of this daring and controversial novel that took the world by storm– a story of politics, selfhood, survival, and war. Featured in The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Bao Ninh on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marjorie Anderson. Jacket photograph by Marc Riboud. Translated from the Vietnamese by Phan Thanh Hao. Edited by Frank Palmos.

"The first critical portrayal of life in the North Vietnamese army ever to appear in Vietnam . . . The censors were evidently moved by the book's unflinching sincerity and Ninh's literary gifts" (Time). "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, All Quiet on the Western Front. And this is to understate its qualities, for, unlike All Quiet, it is a novel about much more than war. A book about writing, about lost youth, it is also a beautiful, agonizing love story" (The Independent).