The Washington Post called the novel “startlingly insightful and perilously candid.”īuy it: Amazon 2. After the fall of Saigon, he is among the refugees sent to the United States and tries to start a new life there, but is quickly recruited back to spy on his fellow comrades. Born to a French father and Vietnamese mother, this unnamed spy was educated in America, but has returned to his home country to fight for the communist cause. First, he adopted a registry of all Muslim Americans, followed by legislation to curb their access to work and the institution of a curfew. In The Sympathizer, the narrator is a South Vietnamese military aide working as a spy for the communist North Vietnamese. It has been two years since a far-right president, elected on a platform to protect America, moved aggressively to contain what has been promoted as the Muslim threat to American security. When Nguyen was 10 years old, he saw the film Apocalypse Now, an American-made drama about the Vietnam War, and realized that not many stories about the war came from the perspective of the Vietnamese people. The Sympathizer is Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize as well as a place on The New York Times bestseller list. "The Sympathizer" by Viet Thanh Nguyen / Amazon / Grove Atlantic Justin Dodd, Mental Floss (background) Internment Samira Ahmed Little, Brown Book Group, Young Adult Fiction - 400 pages 12 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its.
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