The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Viet Thanh Nguyen
- ISBN-13
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Year
- 2015
- Pages
- 384
- Format
- Hardcover, new
Novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press, 2015). A communist double agent builds a new life among Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles while secretly reporting to his superiors. Hardcover, 384 pages.
About this book
The Sympathizer is a debut novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen and the winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. This Grove Press hardcover was published in 2015 and runs 384 pages.
The narrator is a communist double agent, a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon. While building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles, he secretly reports back to his communist superiors in Vietnam. The publisher describes the book as an espionage novel and an exploration of identity and America.
It also won the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel and the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
Product details
Fiction & Comics › Mystery, Thriller & Crime
| Publisher | Grove Press |
|---|---|
| Published | 2015 |
| Author | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
| Format | Hardcover, 384 pages |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8021-2345-9 |
| ISBN-10 | 0802123457 |
| Size | 6.3 × 9.3 × 1.3 in · 1.5 lb |
| Condition | New |
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