Kiens job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. He knows the area well
- this was where in the dry season of 1969 his battalion was obliterated by American napalm & helicopter gunfire. Kien was one of only ten survivors. This book is his attempt to understand the eleven years of his life he gave to a senseless war. Based on true experiences of Bao Ninh & banned by the communist party this novel is revered as the All Quiet on the Western Front for our era.