The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
, as well as seven other awards, The Sympathizer is a breakthrough novel of the decade. 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.
About the author
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese American writer and professor at the University of Southern California
.
He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the academic books Race and Resistance
and Nothing Ever Dies
.
He is a cultural critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times
and teaches English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
, as well as seven other awards, The Sympathizer is a breakthrough novel of the decade. 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.
About the author
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese American writer and professor at the University of Southern California
.
He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the academic books Race and Resistance
and Nothing Ever Dies
.
He is a cultural critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times
and teaches English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.