The Perfect Adoption Collection (Vietnam)
Explore Vietnam's complex history through literature with The Perfect Adoption Collection (Vietnam), featuring The Sorrow of War by Bảo Ninh—a powerful fiction classic on love, loss, and memory. Discover curated adoption books and Vietnam war novels in this essential reading list.
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The Sorrow of War
by Bảo Ninh
The 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 airing September 2017. Bao Ninh, a former North Vietnamese soldier, provides a strikingly honest look at how the Vietnam War forever changed his life, his country, and the people who live there. Originaly published against government wishes in Vietnam because of its nonheroic, non-ideological tone, The Sorrow of War has won worldwide acclaim and become an international bestseller.
