The Sorrow Of War
(BAO NINH)
Bao Ninh''s The Sorrow of War is a hauntingly
powerful Vietnam War novel. Much of it is clearly autobiographical, and the
blurred distinction between the narrator and the protagonist, Kien, eventually
collapses. It is structured as a series of reminiscences, jumping backwards and
forwards in time between the events most salient in memory, events which take
on a different hue each time they are examined. Kien looks back not just at his
ten years at war, but at his final days at school, his work with an MIA team
after the war, the slow disintegration of his life since, and the solace he
finds in his writing. The Sorrow of War manages to convey not just the
immediate horrors of war, but also the emotional damage it wreaks and the dislocation
of lives it causes; it is one of the best war novels I have read.
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