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The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen

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The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction in 2016. 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.

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Publisher
Hachette UK
Year
2015
ISBN-13
9781472151384
Genre
Crime & ThrillerFiction
Topics
Vietnam War and its legacyEspionage and double identityImmigration and displacementPolitical ideology and extremismCultural duality and belonging

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