Viet Thanh Nguyen
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2016
It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country.
The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong.
The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause.
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.
| Title: | The Sympathizer : Now a Sky Exclusive limited series |
| Author: | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
| ISBN: | 9781472151360 |
| Format: | Paperback / softback |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Dimensions: | 128 x 198 x 34 mm |
| Publication Date: | 21 April, 2016 |
| Pagination: | 384 pages |
| Weight: | 402 g |