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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 spy novel, an exploration of extreme politics, and a love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and in the wars we fight today
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The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
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- Released
- 2019
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- Title
- The Sympathizer
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN10
- 1472154916
- ISBN13
- 9781472154910
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Politics, Friendship, Suspense, USA, Wars, Literary Fiction, Asia, Espionage, Escape, Spy Novels, Communism, Hollywood, Adapted into Series, Refugees, Exile, Political Thrillers, Vietnam, Integration, Pulitzer Prize, Political Novels, Vietnamese Literature, Double Agents
- First published
- 2015
- Original title
- The Sympathizer
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- 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 spy novel, an exploration of extreme politics, and a love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and in the wars we fight today