The Sorrow of War, tells the story of a soldier who returns from the war to find his work, family, and love life in ruins. But this remains a touchy topic. Although originally published in Vietnam, the book has since been banned. It is now available only from street peddlers in a bootleg English-language edition. Interest in America.
American movies are popular in Vietnam, especially among the young.
Even the Vietnam War movie Platoon played in Hanoi. But it was not until 1995 that the first nonpolemical book about life in America was published. A File on American Culture by Huu Ngoc ranges across the U.S. landscape from the Ku Klux Klan to the beatnik generation, gays and lesbians, and the puzzling American obsession with eliminating body odors. Today, resentment of Americans is difficult to find. A few months ago, Peterson met Nguyen Viet Chop, the North Vietnamese soldier who captured him during the war.