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May 10, 2024 · May 10, 20241:31 PM ET. Heard on Fresh Air. Terry Gross. 35-Minute Listen. Playlist. Nguyen and his family fled their village in South Vietnam in 1975. Now his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has...
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. -- from the publisher. Biography. Photo: Viet Thanh Nguyen.
May 10, 2024 · Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer has been adapted into a series on HBO/MAX. It's set in Vietnam during the last days of the war, and in LA, just after. The...
May 14, 2024 · Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and numerous other awards. His most recent publication is his memoir, A Man of Two Faces.
Oct 3, 2023 · “I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces,” Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” begins. The unnamed narrator is a biracial, American-educated communist...
Feb 22, 2021 · In dozens of high-profile opinion pieces, he has ripped into racism and inequality in the film industry, in college admissions, in the Western literary canon; he has attacked the grad-school...
Oct 5, 2023 · An audacious memoir from Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of ‘The Sympathizer’. Nguyen’s ‘A Man of Two Faces’ tackles war, colonization, death and more, but still manages to be playful. Review by...