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.
It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be gi...
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.
It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong. The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.
Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the novel The Sympathizer (Grove Press, 2015). He also authored Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002) and co-edited Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (University of Hawaii Press, 2014). An associate professor at the University of Southern California, he teaches in the depart...
Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the novel The Sympathizer (Grove Press, 2015). He also authored Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002) and co-edited Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (University of Hawaii Press, 2014). An associate professor at the University of Southern California, he teaches in the departments of English and American Studies and Ethnicity.
He has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (2011-2012), the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2008-2009) and the Fine Arts Work Center (2004-2005). He has also received residencies, fellowships, and grants from the Luce Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, the James Irvine Foundation, the Huntington Library, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Creative Capital and the Warhol Foundation.
His short fiction has been published in Manoa, Best New American Voices 2007, A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross-Cultural Collision and Connection, Narrative Magazine, TriQuarterly, the Chicago Tribune, and Gulf Coast, where his story won the 2007 Fiction Prize.
His writing has been translated into Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Spanish, and he has given invited lectures in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Germany. He is finishing an academic book titled War, Memory, Identity.
Pretty strong in language, but as to the storyline itself, it's a bit confusing and the rhythm difficult to follow. Some chapters are mildly amusing, I wouldn't call it 'funny' tho.
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1 有用 鱼伊尹 2018-11-01 12:37:24
3.8* Viet Tranh Nyuen seems to be one of the best scholarly writers of the generation
2 有用 Coco Pops 2016-06-19 16:10:29
Pretty strong in language, but as to the storyline itself, it's a bit confusing and the rhythm difficult to follow. Some chapters are mildly amusing, I wouldn't call it 'funny' tho.
1 有用 核镭HOL 2021-04-08 22:30:40
最后杀掉【消音】的时候才算高潮吧 但是最喜欢主角在菲律宾拍电影时对美国文化的观察 好莱坞represent我们 连我们的尖叫和哭号声都搞错了。
0 有用 winnietheice 2019-06-12 15:11:56
nothing. is more important
3 有用 啄木桑的诗极好 2017-10-10 14:57:35
"I'm dying because this world I'm living in isn't worth dying for! If something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live."
0 有用 小花虎 2024-05-20 17:52:59 法国
越往后越精彩
0 有用 bagins 2024-05-09 13:45:46 上海
听
0 有用 SYZZZ 2024-05-05 12:15:46 美国
understand nothing. The true optical illusion was in seeing others and oneself as undivided and whole.
0 有用 ZZ 2024-05-01 01:20:07 美国
作者的寫作風格很特別，我不是非常有共鳴。
0 有用 Answer Lu 2024-04-05 19:06:12 上海
not my type.2%