num_pages: 224
description: Winner of The Independent Foreign Fiction Award, this “hauntingly beautiful novel, written by a North Vietnamese Army veteran, manages to humanize completely a people who up until now have usually been cast as robotic fanatics.” — Sunday Times
language: English
title: The Sorrow of War: A novel of North Vietnam
titlecomplete: The Sorrow of War: A novel of North Vietnam
characters: Kien, Phuong
genres: Asian Literature, Historical, Asia, Novels, War, School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 8844
places: Vietnam
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Sách Hay
category: Văn học, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Nikkei Asia Prizes, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Giải thưởng Hội Nhà Văn Việt Nam
publisher: Vintage Books