{"publishers": ["Pantheon Books"], "number_of_pages": 233, "subtitle": "a novel of North Vietnam", "ia_box_id": ["IA140819"], "covers": [6958281], "local_id": ["urn:sfpl:31223127067271", "urn:sfpl:31223073842222"], "ia_loaded_id": ["sorrowofwarnovel00ba"], "lc_classifications": ["PL4378.9.B37 N6513 1995"], "key": "/books/OL1097719M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL449475A"}], "ocaid": "sorrowofwarnovel00ba", "publish_places": ["New York"], "contributions": ["Palmos, Frank."], "subjects": ["Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Fiction."], "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "pagination": "233 p. ;", "source_records": ["ia:sorrowofwarnovel00ba", "marc:marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary/sfpl_chq_2018_12_24_run02.mrc:96114323:2290", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part23.utf8:132801705:957", "ia:sorrowofwarnovel0000baon", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-004.mrc:269232780:1958"], "title": "The sorrow of war", "dewey_decimal_class": ["895.9/2233"], "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Originally published: Hanoi : Writers' Association Pub. House, 1991."}, "identifiers": {"goodreads": ["1971926"], "librarything": ["10163"]}, "edition_name": "1st American ed.", "lccn": ["94022390"], "isbn_10": ["0679439617"], "publish_date": "1995", "publish_country": "nyu", "by_statement": "Bao Ninh ; translated from the Vietnamese by Phan Thanh Hao ; edited by Frank Palmos.", "work_title": ["Tha\u0302n pha\u0323\u0302n cu\u0309a ti\u0300nh ye\u0302u."], "works": [{"key": "/works/OL2946524W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "oclc_numbers": ["30738329"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The Sorrow of War - by turns bleak and poetic, pellucid and cunning - opens with Kien, an infantry cadre from Hanoi, engaged in the grim business of retrieving and burying the dead at the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the war.\n\nFrom here, the novel ranges back to Kien's youth and the pains of adolescent love, and moves forward to his attempts, as a struggling writer in postwar Hanoi, to come to grips with the savageries he has witnessed, to make sense of death, love, and loss - and of his own survival."}, "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-11-06T19:49:39.259664"}}