The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Now an HBO Limited Series
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, as well as seven other awards, and compared by critics to the works of Graham Greene, Denis Johnson, and George Orwell, The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity, politics, and America. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a “man of two minds,” a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam.
The Sympathizer is a powerful story of love and friendship and a grippling espionage novel.
Now an HBO Limited Series
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, as well as seven other awards, and compared by critics to the works of Graham Greene, Denis Johnson, and George Orwell, The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity, politics, and America. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a “man of two minds,” a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam.
The Sympathizer is a powerful story of love and friendship and a grippling espionage novel.
Now an HBO Limited Series
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, as well as seven other awards, and compared by critics to the works of Graham Greene, Denis Johnson, and George Orwell, The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity, politics, and America. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a “man of two minds,” a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam.
The Sympathizer is a powerful story of love and friendship and a grippling espionage novel.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of the short story collection The Refugees and The Committed, which continues the story of The Sympathizer. He is also the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the academic books Race and Resistance and Nothing Ever Dies. He is the Aerol Arnold Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and McArthur foundations. He lives in Los Angeles.
