Description
A young North Vietnamese company commander, Quan, moves through the brutal logic of war with a clarity that is as unsparing as it is intimate. Told from the inside, his story follows the physical strain, moral compromises, and emotional disorientation that accumulate when survival becomes routine and ideals are tested by daily violence. With a cynical, bitter, and unsentimental voice, the novel examines what war does to the body, to loyalty, and to the meaning of duty—especially when there is no clean way to “win” or to return. Duong Thu Huong’s distinctive, clear-eyed style delivers a visceral, insider perspective that refuses propaganda and instead confronts the human cost in all its complexity.
Available Editions
paperback
William Morrow
Published Feb 15, 1995
292 pages
ISBN: 9780688127824
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Details
First Published
1991
Language
eng
Translation
From: vie
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Novel Without a Name by Duong Thu Huong.