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The sympathizer / Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- (author.).

Summary:

Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.

"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" -- Amazon.com.

Record details

ISBN: 0802124941
ISBN: 9780802124944
ISBN: 9780802123459
ISBN: 0802123457
Physical Description: 393 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2015.
Distributor: [Berkeley, CA] : Publishers Group West.
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

General Note:	Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary.
Awards Note:	Winner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Ficiton ; Center for Fiction First Novel Prize ; and Asian / Pacific American Award for Literature.