Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits is a narrative that is the tale of a single family spanning several generations in Latin America. Nao Ninh's The Sorrow of War tells the story of Kien, a soldier for North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, in a nonlinear, scattershot way. Various events are told outside of their timeline, to a point where the narrative becomes more thematic than linear. Both of these books carry many thematic similarities, and yet their differences in story, tone and character bring new notions to light about how these stories are told.
As previously mentioned, both stories have a very unconventional ...
