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Viet Thanh Nguyen

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The Sympathizer

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer-winning debut, The Sympathizer, hands you a narrator who is literally a man of two minds: a communist spy embedded among South Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles. Part confession, part espionage novel, part savage comedy of identity, it's a book that talks back to every American story you think you know about the Vietnam War.