Living and loving in 'The land of cogon grass'

The main character is an upright scout, directly holding a gun to fight, daring to overcome everything to live and love under the bombs and bullets. Surrounding his fate are his comrades, the sweeping bombs and bullets, his fiancée, and his sorrowful homeland. A historical period has been recreated with extreme realism and cruelty in every event and every context, even though it was fictionalized through the image of fictional characters and has receded into the past for half a century.

The theme of war in literature was once the mainstream, so whether you want it or not, it is easy to fall into a rut and repeat yourself, while the needs of readers are getting higher and higher. Writing about war but not standing from many angles but only being extremely fierce is afraid that you will only tell half the truth. Fortunately, Mien Co Co has the necessary freshness to keep readers through 360 pages of the book. Even the title evokes so much nostalgia, there is nothing stronger and braver than the cogon grass on the battlefield, no matter how crushed and destroyed, it still grows strongly and persistently, contributing each dry leaf to the thatched roofs, even a little bit of ashes still retains the salty taste to help people overcome the hunger for salt.

Soldiers on the front lines not only hold guns and face forward, but also have to deal with unexpected dangers from their fellow soldiers, and have to fight with themselves and their loved ones. Love between men and women amidst the chaos of fire and smoke can sometimes become a miraculous power. How can one not be moved when reading pages describing a wedding that took place three times in the middle of the jungle, heartbreaking with the great losses when young lives disappeared in an instant, trying to imagine the scene of a mother holding her newborn child buried in a bunker after a bomb attack... then one can see that there is nothing more precious than peace .

To have an extremely rich and accurate life experience when writing about the life of a soldier, from reconnaissance, close combat, incredibly strong survival instincts, and even mass mobilization work in ethnic minority areas, the author must at least have been an insider or at least have had the time to thoroughly penetrate reality, which is not simple. With more than 40 years in the army, writer - Colonel Nguyen Minh Ngoc has always been loyal and devoted to the topic of revolutionary war as a mission of a writer with a series of works and film scripts. "Writing about war is not to praise it, but the profound purpose is to convey an important message to help readers understand and feel correctly. How to avoid all wars from falling like disasters. I think that is a cultural way of behaving", Nguyen Minh Ngoc shared.

The reed fields of that time may have changed dramatically, become a bustling city with countless people coming and going, but none of us can forget the hidden mineral veins deep in the ground that have shaped the beautiful life of today.

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