Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Sympathizer

Spy navigates dual loyalty between North and South Vietnam during and after war

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Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Vietnamese-American novelist and critic whose debut The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize in 2016. His work explores the Vietnam War and its aftermath from the perspective of the Vietnamese diaspora. He is a major voice in Asian-American literature and in the literature of war.

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