The Sympathizer (Thorndike Press Large Print Reviewers' Choice) - Hardcover

Nguyen, Viet Thanh

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9781410482624: The Sympathizer (Thorndike Press Large Print Reviewers' Choice)

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ISBN 10: 1410482626 ISBN 13: 9781410482624

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2015

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A National Bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice An Amazon Best Book of the Year So Far (#5) One of Newsday’s “10 Books Not to Miss in April” A Publishers Weekly Debut Fiction Pick A Library Journal Best Debut of Spring One of Kirkus Reviews' "10 Novels to Lose Yourself In" and a Must-Read Pick for Spring A Flavorwire Must-Read Book for Apirl Shortlisted for the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a South Vietnamese general is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his captain, drawing up a list of those who will be on the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that the captain is observing and reporting on the group to the Viet Cong. Exploring a life between two worlds, The Sympathizer examines the legacy of the Vietnam War.

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An Amazon Best Book of April 2015: Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer brilliantly draws you in with the opening line: “I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces.” It’s thrilling, rhythmic, and astonishing, as is the rest of Nguyen’s enthralling portrayal of the Vietnam War. The narrator is an undercover communist agent posing as a captain in the Southern Vietnamese Army. Set during the fall of Saigon and the years after in America, the captain spies on the general and the men he escaped with, sharing his information with his communist blood brothers in coded letters. But when his allegiance is called into question, he must act in a way that will haunt him forever. Political, historical, romantic and comic, The Sympathizer is a rich and hugely gratifying story that captures the complexity of the war and what it means to be of two minds. --Al Woodworth

About the Author:

Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the academic books Race and Resistance and Nothing Ever Dies. He is a cultural critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times and teaches English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles.

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