Hanoi at Midnight: Stories - Bao Ninh

Descriere Hanoi at Midnight: Stories - Bao Ninh

Breaking a thirty-year silence, Bảo Ninh has \npermitted at last the publication of a new work in English. Ninh is perhaps \nVietnam's foremost chronicler of the war, which he joined at age 17. Bringing \nto life the full range of his inventive and poetic language, Quan Manh Ha and \nCab Tran are granting to English readers Bảo Ninh's first book-length work \nsince The Sorrow of War, which catapulted him to fame and \nwhich was banned in Vietnam until 2006. In Hà Nội at \nMidnight, ten stories are appearing in the West for the first \ntime. \nJuxtaposed with tranquility \nand geniality are abandoned landscapes and defoliated forests. Polluted rivers \nand streams, the war-torn sky, pungent air filled with the stench of \ndecomposing human corpses, and the deafening roar of helicopters and bombers \nhovering in the gloom dominate the settings of Bảo Ninh's \nstories.\n \nIntertwined with these horrific images are human \ntears shed during farewell ceremonies, when recruits are separated from their \nloved ones, when parents live in anxiety and hope while their children are \nfighting in remote regions, and when soldiers bury their comrades and burden \nthemselves with the fallen's unfulfilled wishes. Hà Nội at \nMidnight delineates the complex outpourings of war and the way it \nremakes human relationships.\n \n\n \n\n \n\n

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Texas Tech University Press

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9781682831625

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