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Publisher: Grove Press

Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen

ISBN: 9780802124944

Fiction, Historical

The Sympathizer by
Viet Thanh Nguyen

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$ 400.00 mxn

The Sympathizer by

Viet Thanh Nguyen

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"Nguyen's cross-grained protagonist exposes the hidden costs in both countries of America's tragic Asian misadventure. Nguyen's probing literary art illuminates how Americans failed in their political and military attempt to remake Vietnam--but then succeeded spectacularly in shrouding their failure in Hollywood distortions. Compelling--and profoundly unsettling."

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Summary

A Vietnam War novel unlike any other. The narrator, one of the most arresting of recent fiction, is a man of two minds and divided loyalties, a half-French half-Vietnamese communist sleeper agent living in America after the end of the war.

A gripping spy novel, a moving story of love and friendship, and a layered portrayal of a young man drawn into extreme politics, The Sympathizer examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.

Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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