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 Taken from An Interview with Bao Ninh: Part One by Marc Levy:
(Continued in the Spring/Summer 2000 issue)
In 1995 I backpacked six months across Southeast Asia and Indonesia, and regretted not locating Bao Ninh, the former NVA solider and critically-acclaimed author of The Sorrow of War, in Hanoi. In 1996 we corresponded once, and in 1998, by remarkable coincidence, I met him at The William Joiner Center Writers' Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. Following my unexpectedly emotional reaction, we agreed to meet later and speak at length about the daily life of NVA in combat. About noon the next day we sat on the grass beneath a symmetrically planted grove of shade trees overlooking Boston Harbor. Except for the occasional sound of wind-rustled leaves, the setting was eerily reminiscent of rubber plantations I had fought in near An Loc and Loc Ninh. To my right was our youthful translator, Chau Thien Hiep, who for the next three hours promptly translated my questions from English to Vietnamese.... Read More
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