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SUMMARY:Bookclub - The Sorrow War by Bảo Ninh
DESCRIPTION:For September 2019 we will be reading: \nThe Sorrow of War by Bảo Ninh \n“The first critical portrayal of life in the North Vietnamese army ever to appear in Vietnam . . .”—Time\n“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\n“Dramatic . . . Chronicle[s] the wrecked lives of North Vietnamese soldiers who enter the war with blazing idealism\, only to sink deeper into disillusionment and pessimism as everything they know falls apart around them . . . Will force American readers to acknowledge how little they still understand of the long war that left such a legacy of grief and guilt in their own country.”—The Washington Post\n“Powerful . . . Make[s] North Vietnamese soldiers human\, wrenched by the same fear and pain as young Americans. A remarkable emotional intensity builds as the author mixes harrowing flashback scenes from the war with images from his pastoral youth\, from his heartbreaking homecoming after a decade away\, and finally from the nightmare calamity that ties everything else together and gives the book its tragic power . . . Finally put[s] an acceptable human face on a group of people long without one. You will never think of North Vietnam and its people the same way again.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer\n“An unputdownable novel. It should win the Pulitzer Prize.”—The Guardian \nMeeting venue:  Serein Café & Lounge\, 6 Tập Thể Ga Long Biên\, Trần Nhật Duật\, Quận Hoàn Kiếm\, (location map) \nRSVP attendance –Maria \nWelcome to FVH’s 20th anniversary year \n \n  \nPlease follow and like us:Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading...\n\n	Related\n
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