Who is Lan from The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam and what is their importance? The_Sorrow_of_War English & Literature Lan | The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam

Lan is the daughter of a woman who had opened her home to Kien and two other young soldiers during their training. Kien's postwar visit to Lan's home suggests that there is potential for a romantic and intimate relationship between them, but at the same time suggests that they are both too emotionally scarred by the war for a relationship to happen.