Bao Ninh

Hanoi at Midnight: Stories -- Bao Ninh, Paperback

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Breaking a thirty-year silence, Bảo Ninh has permitted at last the publication of a new work in English. Ninh is perhaps Vietnam's foremost chronicler of the war, which he joined at age 17. Bringing to life the full range of his inventive and poetic language, Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran are granting to English readers Bảo Ninh's first book-length work since The Sorrow of War, which catapulted him to fame and which was banned in Vietnam until 2006. In H? Nội at Midnight, ten stories are appearing in the West for the first time.

Juxtaposed with tranquility and geniality are abandoned landscapes and defoliated forests. Polluted rivers and streams, the war-torn sky, pungent air filled with the stench of decomposing human corpses, and the deafening roar of helicopters and bombers hovering in the gloom dominate the settings of Bảo Ninh's stories.

Intertwined with these horrific images are human tears shed during farewell ceremonies, when recruits are separated from their loved ones, when parents live in anxiety and hope while their children are fighting in remote regions, and when soldiers bury their comrades and burden themselves with the fallen's unfulfilled wishes. H? Nội at Midnight delineates the complex outpourings of war and the way it remakes human relationships.



Author: Bao Ninh
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 02/13/2024
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d
ISBN: 9781682832028

Product Tags:

Asia (General), Asian American, Bao Ninh, Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, Fiction, Fiction - General, Paperback, Short Stories (single author), Texas Tech University Press, World Literature

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