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| Original Title: | The Sympathizer |
| ISBN: | 0802123457 (ISBN13: 9780802123459) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Los Angeles area, California,1975(United States) Vietnam Philippines |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2016), California Book Award for First Fiction (Gold) (2015), PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2016), Edgar Award for Best First Novel (2016), Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2016) Deutscher Krimi Preis for 2. Platz International (2018), The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize (2015), Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction (2016), Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Fiction (2015), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2017) |
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Hardcover | Pages: 371 pages Rating: 4 | 65372 Users | 7236 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Sympathizer |
| Author | : | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 371 pages |
| Published | : | April 7th 2015 by Grove Press (first published April 2nd 2015) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Cultural. Asia. Novels. Literary Fiction |
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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.Rating About Books The Sympathizer
Ratings: 4 From 65372 Users | 7236 ReviewsAppraise About Books The Sympathizer
Being an English major from UCBerkeley and an Artistic Director of Asian American Theater Company for 3 years, I've run across a lot of Asian American works. Though my heart is always with these stories, they've often lacked style. Viet Nguyen has style. He's really funny, in a smart unpredictable way. And I think he's is going to get a lot of awards and all that when word really gets out. Deservedly so because it touches all the big points of Vietnamese American history while never gettingThis is without a doubt an important story to tell. " ....thousands of refugees wailed as if attending a funeral, the burial of their nation, dead too soon, as so many were, at a tender twenty- one years of age." The writing is as good as I found in The Refugees but I wasn't immediately drawn in and had a difficult time trying to understand what was happening during the evacuation, but I'm guessing that it reflects the reality of what it must have been like. Our narrator, the Captain , a double
The Sympathizer, written by Viet Thanh Nguyen, is a sweeping novel of Vietnamese and American culture after the fall of Saigon seen through the eyes of a half-French, half-Vietnamese intellectual communist double agent. Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Price for Fiction, the author writes from different perspectives showing us the lives of Vietnamese refugees who settled in America after the war. With beautiful prose, and some humor, The Sympathizer is about war and its aftermath, friendship, and
Another Update (2nd update)--- I've been reading through my Kindle book again the last few days of this book --looking over my notes -taking new ones.--Our local book club is meeting to talk about "The Sympathizer". 25 of members from around the Bay Area are attending....with 25 others on the waitlist. For people who live in our area -- this is an important topic. Americans and Vietnamese/Americans live closely together here. The Vietnamese culture thrives in our city. Right after I read this
I loved Thanh Nguyen's The Refugees, so I was eager to read his Pulitzer winner debut novel.I'm glad to report that my admiration of Thanh Nguyen's talent remains intact.There are a gazillion reviews of this novel, so I'll only write some thoughts.I don't recall ever reading a book about the Vietnam war. I watched some movies on the subject, but they were distinctly American. To be honest, I don't think I grasped what exactly had happened.The Sympathizer is an important novel, as it's written by
There's so much going on in this novel, so many tones of voice that it's perhaps impossible to love everything. I had problems with the home run, an extended torture scene which extracts from the narrator the confession which, we learn, is this novel. Here the author overindulged the existentialist aspect of this novel for me which I never found quite convincing. The theme Nguyen chooses to bind together all his material is duality, a theme I found a bit facile and even counterproductive at
I read this book for many reasons - Pulitzer winner, and a book club pick for my in-person group. We discussed it last night, and I wanted to wait to weigh in until that discussion, but also until I had finished reading the author's non-fiction book Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (on the long list for the National Book Award as we speak.)When you read the two books back to back, it is easy to see how the eleven years of research that went into the non-fiction academic treatment
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