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Savage Winds

Bao Ninh

Translated by Phun Huy Dong & Nina McPherson

'The war was almost over. On the other side of the plain, the enemy artillery base lay silent; no reconnaissance plane had yet appeared on the horizon.'

Bao Ninh

Bao Ninh was born in 1952 in Hanoi. During Vietnam’s ‘American War’, he was one of five hundred soldiers to serve in the Glorious 27th Youth Brigade, only ten of whom survived. His novel The Sorrow of War was published in 1993.

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Translated by Phun Huy Dong

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Translated by Nina McPherson

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