The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

Viet Thanh Nguyen (University of Southern California)

The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Country
United States
Published
12 April 2016
Pages
384
ISBN
9780802124944

The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

Viet Thanh Nguyen (University of Southern California)

Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel
Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

[A] remarkable debut novel. –Philip Caputo, New York Times Book Review (cover review)

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.

The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as seven other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. 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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