{"product_id":"hanoi-at-midnight-stories-diasporic-vietnamese-artists-network-series","title":"Hanoi at Midnight: Stories (Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Series)","description":"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 Hà Nội at Midnight, ten stories are appearing in the West for the first time.\n\nJuxtaposed 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.\nIntertwined 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. Hà Nội at Midnight delineates the complex outpourings of war and the way it remakes human relationships.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1682831620\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1682831620.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Ninh, Bao|Ha, Quan Manh|Tran, Cab\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41516675825722,"sku":"DBV.1682831620.G","price":14.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1682831620-0.jpg?v=1783748939","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/hanoi-at-midnight-stories-diasporic-vietnamese-artists-network-series","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}