The Washington Post called the novel “startlingly insightful and perilously candid.”īuy it: Amazon 2. After the fall of Saigon, he is among the refugees sent to the United States and tries to start a new life there, but is quickly recruited back to spy on his fellow comrades. Born to a French father and Vietnamese mother, this unnamed spy was educated in America, but has returned to his home country to fight for the communist cause. In The Sympathizer, the narrator is a South Vietnamese military aide working as a spy for the communist North Vietnamese. Lucky, born Lakshmi, is a second-generation.
When Nguyen was 10 years old, he saw the film Apocalypse Now, an American-made drama about the Vietnam War, and realized that not many stories about the war came from the perspective of the Vietnamese people. Soho, 25 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61695-790-2 An unusual marriage of convenience sets in motion Sindu’s perceptive, subtle, and provocative first novel. The Sympathizer is Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize as well as a place on The New York Times bestseller list. "The Sympathizer" by Viet Thanh Nguyen / Amazon / Grove Atlantic Justin Dodd, Mental Floss (background)
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