{"product_id":"hanoi-at-midnight-stories-9781682831625","title":"Hanoi at Midnight: Stories","description":"Breaking a thirty-year silence, Bảo Ninh has\u003cbr\u003epermitted at last the publication of a new work in English. Ninh is perhaps\u003cbr\u003eVietnam's foremost chronicler of the war, which he joined at age 17. Bringing\u003cbr\u003eto life the full range of his inventive and poetic language, Quan Manh Ha and\u003cbr\u003eCab Tran are granting to English readers Bảo Ninh's first book-length work\u003cbr\u003esince \u003ci\u003eThe Sorrow of War\u003c\/i\u003e, which catapulted him to fame and\u003cbr\u003ewhich was banned in Vietnam until 2006. In \u003ci\u003eHà Nội at\u003cbr\u003eMidnight\u003c\/i\u003e, ten stories are appearing in the West for the first\u003cbr\u003etime. \u003cp\u003eJuxtaposed with tranquility\u003cbr\u003eand geniality are abandoned landscapes and defoliated forests. Polluted rivers\u003cbr\u003eand streams, the war-torn sky, pungent air filled with the stench of\u003cbr\u003edecomposing human corpses, and the deafening roar of helicopters and bombers\u003cbr\u003ehovering in the gloom dominate the settings of Bảo Ninh's\u003cbr\u003estories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntertwined with these horrific images are human\u003cbr\u003etears shed during farewell ceremonies, when recruits are separated from their\u003cbr\u003eloved ones, when parents live in anxiety and hope while their children are\u003cbr\u003efighting in remote regions, and when soldiers bury their comrades and burden\u003cbr\u003ethemselves with the fallen's unfulfilled wishes. \u003ci\u003eHà Nội at\u003cbr\u003eMidnight\u003c\/i\u003e delineates the complex outpourings of war and the way it\u003cbr\u003eremakes human relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Texas Tech University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50651601502482,"sku":"9781682831625","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_79b079ac-dd03-43fb-a1aa-cc89511c984b.jpg?v=1733305346","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hanoi-at-midnight-stories-9781682831625","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}