![]() ![]() ‘A bold, artful and globally minded reimagining of the Vietnam war. An associate professor at the University of Southern. He also authored Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002) and co-edited Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (University of Hawaii Press, 2014). A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today. Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the novel The Sympathizer (Grove Press, 2015). The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. ![]() It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. ‘A fierce novel written in a refreshingly high style and charged with intelligent rage’ Financial Times WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION 2016 WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL 2016 *** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016*** ![]()
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