It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. Nguyen is also the Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, a nonfiction companion to The Sympathizer, and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and has received residencies and grants from the Luce Foundation, the Warhol Foundation, and the Huntington Library, among many others. Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2016 A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties. A half-French, half-Vietnamese man who served as a spy for Communist forces during the Vietnam War. Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2016 A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose. Through his secret observations and reports on his fellow military exiles to the Viet Cong, the extreme politics, loyalties, and legacies of the Vietnam War are exposed and dissected. The Sympathizer: With Robert Downey Jr., Scott Ly, Hoa Xuande, Fred Nguyen Khan. “A frenzied, abrasive, attention-grabbing” ( Wall Street Journal) debut novel, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer is the story of a South Vietnamese army captain who emigrates to Los Angeles in 1975 at the end of the war.
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