The sympathizer

Nguyen, Viet Thanh 1971- (author.).

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

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes a new essay and author interview.
Awards Note:	Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.