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The Sorrow of War is the first novel of the Vietnam War told from the North Vietnamese perspective. Readers follow Kien as a young soldier and, later, as a writer struggling to come to grips with the savageries he has witnessed. Takes its place alongside the greatest war novel... Read Full Overview

Kien'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... Read Full Overview