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The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
A Vietnamese spy confesses. Both sides are guilty.
For you if
you want to understand the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese perspective rather than the American one
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A Communist spy embedded in the South Vietnamese army flees to America after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and writes his confession to a Commandant who may or may not be sympathetic. Nguyen writes in a voice that is simultaneously inside both sides — the spy who understands the Americans and the Vietnamese, the exile who belongs fully to neither — and uses that position to dismantle every myth the Vietnam War produced. Pulitzer Prize winner. The dispatch that finally gave the war back to the Vietnamese people who fought it on both sides.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Vietnam • Southeast Asia
- Voice
- Written by a Vietnamese author
- Themes
- True Cost of Empire
