# Hanoi at Midnight: Stories - Hardcover

by **Bao Ninh** (Author), **Quan Manh Ha** (Translator), **Cab Tran** (Translator)

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.

Juxtaposed 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.

Intertwined 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.

**Number of Pages:** 216

**Dimensions:** 0.55 x 8.9 x 5.83 IN

**Publication Date:** March 15, 2023

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