Viet Thanh Nguyen
Hardcover | Pages: 371 pages Rating: 4 | 65372 Users | 7236 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Sympathizer |
| ISBN: | 0802123457 (ISBN13: 9780802123459) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Los Angeles area, California,1975(United States) Vietnam Philippines |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2016), California Book Award for First Fiction (Gold) (2015), PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2016), Edgar Award for Best First Novel (2016), Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2016) Deutscher Krimi Preis for 2. Platz International (2018), The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize (2015), Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction (2016), Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Fiction (2015), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2017) |
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It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. 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. 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. 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. 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.Present Based On Books The Sympathizer
| Title | : | The Sympathizer |
| Author | : | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 371 pages |
| Published | : | April 7th 2015 by Grove Press (first published April 2nd 2015) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Cultural. Asia. Novels. Literary Fiction |
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Ratings: 4 From 65372 Users | 7236 ReviewsCrit Based On Books The Sympathizer
3.5 starsI can see how The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen's complex novel focusing on the post-Vietnam War experience, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year. It's plenty thought-provoking and weighty, uncompromsing in its candor. It has a snarky sense of humor. It provides a underrepresented (to contemporary fiction, anyway) viewpoint of the Vietnamese diaspora here in the United States. Would it, though, have gotten my vote for the Pulitzer? Nope. I can think of several titles moreI loved Thanh Nguyen's The Refugees, so I was eager to read his Pulitzer winner debut novel.I'm glad to report that my admiration of Thanh Nguyen's talent remains intact.There are a gazillion reviews of this novel, so I'll only write some thoughts.I don't recall ever reading a book about the Vietnam war. I watched some movies on the subject, but they were distinctly American. To be honest, I don't think I grasped what exactly had happened.The Sympathizer is an important novel, as it's written by
Forty years ago this month, after a long, deadly release of flatulence from American politicians, the United States evacuated its personnel from Saigon in an operation appropriately code-named Frequent Wind. Whether you were alive then or not, the images of those panicked Vietnamese crushing the U.S. Embassy are tattooed on our collective consciousness.In the opening pages of Viet Thanh Nguyens extraordinary first novel, The Sympathizer, that terror feels so real that youll mistake your beating
So clever and witty but also gripping.
I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds. With these words Viet Thanh Nguyen decides to start the novel and these two sentences were enough to get me hooked. They managed to intrigue me, to want to know more and set the basis for what will prove to be one of the main theme, the interior conflict of the narrator. The Symphatizer is a book about the Vietnam War and its aftermath. The book is about loyalty, identity and the
This is without a doubt an important story to tell. " ....thousands of refugees wailed as if attending a funeral, the burial of their nation, dead too soon, as so many were, at a tender twenty- one years of age." The writing is as good as I found in The Refugees but I wasn't immediately drawn in and had a difficult time trying to understand what was happening during the evacuation, but I'm guessing that it reflects the reality of what it must have been like. Our narrator, the Captain , a double
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