{"id":49719,"date":"2016-11-02T18:10:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49719"},"modified":"2016-11-02T20:38:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T20:38:35","slug":"the-sympathizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49719","title":{"rendered":"The Sympathizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groveatlantic.com\/#page=isbn9780802124944\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Sympathizer<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groveatlantic.com\" target=\"_blank\">Grove Press<\/a><br \/>\nApril 2015<br \/>\n384 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0802123459<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0802124944<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Viet Thanh Nguyen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groveatlantic.com\/#page=isbn9780802124944\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groveatlantic.com\/bigcovers\/9780802124944.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction<\/li>\n<li>Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction<\/li>\n<li>Winner of the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize<\/li>\n<li>Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel<\/li>\n<li>Winner of the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize<\/li>\n<li>Winner of the 2015-2016 Asian\/Pacific American Award for Literature (Adult Fiction)<\/li>\n<li>Winner of the 2016 California Book Award for First Fiction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Named a Best Book of the Year by the\u00a0<em>New York Times Book Review<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>, <em>Seattle Times<\/em>, <em>Daily Beast<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Kansas City Star<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Library Journal<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Kirkus Reviews<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Publishers Weekly<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Booklist<\/em>, <em>Guardian<\/em>,\u00a0<em>National Post<\/em>,\u00a0<em>MPR News<\/em>, <em>Amazon<\/em>, <em>Slate<\/em>, <em>Flavorwire<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Entropy<\/em>, <em>Quartz<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Globe and Mail<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, <em>The Sympathizer<\/em> is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties. In dialogue with but diametrically opposed to the narratives of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam_War\" target=\"_blank\">Vietnam War<\/a> that have preceded it, this novel offers an important and unfamiliar new perspective on the war: that of a conflicted communist sympathizer.<\/p>\n<p>It is April 1975, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ho_Chi_Minh_City\" target=\"_blank\">Saigon<\/a> is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Army_of_the_Republic_of_Vietnam\" target=\"_blank\">South Vietnamese army<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles<\/a>, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Viet_Cong\" target=\"_blank\">Viet Cong<\/a>. <em>The Sympathizer<\/em> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam\" target=\"_blank\">Vietnam<\/a> to fight for the Communist cause. Viet Thanh Nguyen\u2019s astonishing novel takes us inside the mind of this double agent, a man whose lofty ideals necessitate his betrayal of the people closest to him. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, <em>The Sympathizer<\/em> explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sympathizer Grove Press April 2015 384 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0802123459 Paperback ISBN: 978-0802124944 Viet Thanh Nguyen Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Winner of the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,15],"tags":[25342,25340,25341,1130],"class_list":["post-49719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-novels","tag-grove-atlantic","tag-grove-press","tag-viet-thanh-nguyen","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49739,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49719\/revisions\/49739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}