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MORE ABOUT THE SYMPATHIZER<\/em>:<\/p>\n\u201cMagisterial. A disturbing, fascinating and darkly comic take on the fall of Saigon and its aftermath and a powerful examination of guilt and betrayal. The Sympathizer is destined to become a classic and redefine the way we think about the Vietnam War and what it means to win and to lose.\u201d\u2014T. C. Boyle<\/strong>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. In dialogue with but diametrically opposed to the narratives of the Vietnam War that have preceded it, this novel offers an important and unfamiliar new perspective on the war: that of a conflicted communist sympathizer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cA magnificent feat of storytelling. A novel of literary, political and historical importance.\u201d\u00a0\u2014 Maxine Hong Kingston, author of\u00a0<\/span>Fifth Book of Peace<\/em><\/strong>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. Viet Thanh Nguyen\u2019s astonishing novel takes us inside the mind of this double agent, a man whose lofty ideals necessitate his betrayal of the people closest to him. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story,<\/span>The Sympathizer<\/em>\u00a0explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cIt is a strong, strange and liberating joy to read this book, feeling with each page that a\u00a0broken world is being knitted back together, once again whole and complete. As far as I am\u00a0concerned, Viet Thanh Nguyen\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>The Sympathizer<\/em>\u00a0\u2014both a great American novel and a great\u00a0Vietnamese novel\u2014will close the shelf on the literature of the Vietnam War.\u201d<\/span><\/strong>\u2014Bob Shacochis, author of\u00a0<\/span>The Woman Who Lost Her Soul<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time for our third\u00a0subscriber drive. We\u2019re looking for 100 new subscribers for diaCRITICS, and we\u2019ll be giving away a signed first edition of The Sympathizer, diaCRITICS’ editor Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new\u00a0novel. Previous winners include our 40th subscriber, Daniel Carroll, and our 5th subscriber,\u00a0Jora Trang. Publishers Weekly calls it one of the most anticipated debuts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88903,"featured_media":25911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[1179,1534,1613],"yoast_head":"\n
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