“[A] remarkable debut novel”—Philip Caputo,New York Times Book Review(cover review) The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as seven other awards,The Sympathizeris one of the most acclaimed books of the twenty-first century. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and pr...
The Sympathizer reads as part literary historical fiction, part espionage thriller and part satire. Nguyen knows of what he writes (Los Angeles Times) An important new perspective on the Vietnam War . . . The Sympathizer will both startle and grip you (BuzzFeed) ...
ThoughThe Sympathizerwas Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel, he already had numerous short stories under his belt, and this “important and incisive” (Washington Post) collection of them hit shelves not long after the publication ofThe Sympathizer, making it a great place to turn after you’ve ...
Postscript (28 Dec 2024): First of all, check out this very, very negative review in the New York Times, perhaps before they had bylines for the authors. What a pan! And the next book that I am reading by Munro is The Progress of Love (1974). I can’t yet articulate why but I...
The New York Times’ reviewer singled out Lord’s spare, elegant prose style. “She writes with great clarity and is able to make each separate scene count for exactly what she intended.” Monica Furlong, writing in the Guardian gave the book its most enthusiastic review: “Masterpiece, ...
The Sympathizer Buy Now On Amazon $10.39 The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the novel follows a narrator that’s 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 ...
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And to further complicate the situation, a decision is taken to bring in known Nazi sympathizers and confine them in the same town-camps. No one expected the Nazis to be released, but now arose the danger of becoming the victim of a whispering campaign. The mere suggestion of a favorable...
Eisenhower, New York Times Book Review, October 27, 1957 Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand, the one doing the important job, unnoticed —David K. Shipler, New York Times, ...
In the past people in the US who opposed war and sought peace between the US and the USSR were frequently marginalized and accused of being “communist sympathizers.” Today, such labels have been transformed into new epithets such as “Putin puppet” or “Chinese apologist.” Given the ...