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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Bảo Ninh's The Sorrow of War. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.
Triumph. Even though The Sorrow of War was banned in Vietnam at the time, Bao Ninh won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the novel in 1994.
Translations. The version of The Sorrow of War that is most widely known throughout the world is not a direct translation of Ninh’s work—rather, it’s a newer version based on an earlier, rougher translation.