The Sympathizer Av Viet Thanh Nguyen

<p><font><b>***</b> <b>WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016</b><b>***</b></font><br><b>WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL 2016</b><br><b>WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION 2016</b><br><b><br>'A fierce novel written in a refreshingly high style and charged with intelligent rage' <i>Financial Times</i><br></b><br>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. <i>The Sympathizer</i> 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, <i>The Sympathizer</i> explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.<br><br><br>'A bold, artful and globally minded reimagining of the Vietnam war . . . <i>The Sympathizer</i> is an excellent literary novel, and one that ends, with unsettling present-day resonance, in a refugee boat where opposing ideas about intentions, actions and their consequences take stark and resilient human form' the <i>Guardian</i><br><br>'Beautifully written and meaty'<br><i>Claire Messud</i><br><br>'[A] remarkable debut novel . . . In its final chapters, <i>The Sympathizer</i> becomes an absurdist tour de force that might have been written by a Kafka or Genet'<br><i>New York Times</i><br><br>'This debut is a page-turner (read: everybody will finish) that makes you reconsider the Vietnam War ... Nguyen's darkly comic novel offers a point of view about American culture that we've rarely seen'<br><i>Oprah.com (Oprah's Book Club Suggestions)</i></p>