The Sorrow of War
| Author | Bao Ninh |
|---|---|
| Original title | Thân phận của tình yêu (Identity of love) |
| Translator | Frank Palmos Vo Bang Thanh Phan Thanh Hao |
| Language | Vietnamese |
| Publisher | Hội nhà văn |
Publication date | 1991 |
| Publication place | Vietnam |
Published in English | 1994 |
| Pages | 283 |
The Sorrow of War (Vietnamese: Nỗi buồn chiến tranh) is a 1991 novel by the Vietnamese writer Bảo Ninh. The novel was Ninh's graduation project at the Nguyen Du Writing School in Hanoi. It tells the story of a soldier who is collecting dead bodies after the war and then begins to think about his past. The novel won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.