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With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a “man of two minds,” a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while ...
Viet Thanh Nguyen. Viet Thanh Nguyen ( Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt; born March 13, 1971 [a]) is a Vietnamese-American professor and novelist. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. [3] [4]
Apr 10, 2024 · April 10, 2024 10:00 AM EDT. W hen you hear that Hollywood is adapting a book like Viet Thanh Nguyen ’s The Sympathizer, you worry. Published to raves in 2015, the searing debut novel set in the ...
May 17, 2024 · The Sympathizer episodes. Here is the official synopsis for each episode of The Sympathizer released so far: The Sympathizer episode 1, "Death Wish" "With the fall of Saigon imminent, the Captain juggles the communist party, the South Vietnamese army, his CIA handler and his conscience." The Sympathizer episode 2, "Good Little Asian" "As he ...
Apr 12, 2023 · “The Sympathizer” is a co-production between HBO, A24 and Rhombus Media, produced in association with Cinetic Media and Moho Film. Don McKellar serves as co-showrunner and executive producer ...
Oct 20, 2017 · The Pulitzer Prize-winning author discusses his acclaimed novel and the legacy of the Vietnam War. USC professor Viet Thanh Nguyen won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Sympathizer and is a 2017 MacArthur Fellow. He tells Robert Scheer he wanted his novel to tell a story with the Vietnamese experience in the foreground unlike previous ...
April 20, 2024. 60min. TV-MA. The Captain and his fellow Vietnamese refugees attempt to settle into life in Los Angeles. The defeated General grows suspicious and demands the Captain locate a mole he believes has infiltrated their ranks. While the Captain narrows in on a target, he reconnects with his former teacher, Professor Hammer, and meets ...
