In 1987, Bảo Ninh published Trại bảy chú lùn (Camp of Seven Dwarves), a collection of short stories. He has also written a second novel, Steppe, but is said to be reluctant to publish it.[4]
A short story by Bảo Ninh, "A Marker on the Side of the Boat" (Khắc dấu mạn thuyền), translated by Linh Dinh, is included in the anthology Night, Again.
Bảo Ninh is also a successful essayist. He is interviewed in Ken Burns's series The Vietnam War.
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The sorrow of war inside a soldier's heart was in a strange way similar to the sorrow of love. It was a kind of nostalgia, like the immense sadness of a world at dusk. It was a sadness, a missing, a pain which could send one soaring back into the...
Undeniably, the core topic of the novel is the horrors of warfare and the Vietnam War in particular. Like the book, The Things They Carried, The Sorrow of War seems to be a compendium of shattered vignettes. In Ninh's novel, the reader sees war...
