| ISBN |
9780802124944 (paperback) |
| Name |
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- author. |
| Title |
The sympathizer / Viet Thanh Nguyen. |
| Published |
New York : Grove Press, [2015] |
| ©2015 |
| Description |
393 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes a new essay and author interview. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Awards note |
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Ficiton. |
| Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. |
| Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. |
| Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. |
| Subjects |
Vietnamese fiction -- California -- Los Angeles |
| Soldiers -- Vietnam (Republic) Fiction |
| Communists -- Vietnam (Republic) Fiction |
| Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction |
| Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Vietnam (Republic) Fiction |
| Genre |
Spy fiction |
| Reservations Queue |
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