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The Sympathizer
A Literary Fiction Novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Book 1 of the The Sympathizer Series
Subgenres:
- Espionage,
- Vietnam War,
- Immigrant Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Espionage stories with conflicted narrators and divided loyalties
- Vietnam War aftermath explored through immigrant and refugee experiences
- Literary fiction that interrogates identity and belonging
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize, a startling debut novel from a powerful new voice featuring one of the most remarkable narrators of recent fiction: a conflicted subversive and idealist working as a double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal.
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 blistering exploration of identity and America, a gripping espionage novel, and a powerful story of love and friendship.
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