The sympathizer
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-2016
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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.
Main title:
The sympathizer / Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Author:
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-, author
Imprint:
London : Corsair, 2016.
Collation:
499 pages ; 20 cm
Series title:
Series:
Sympathizer ; 1
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Atlantic Monthly Press; London: Corsair, 2015.Originally published: New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015.
Awards:
Pulitzer Prize for fiction 2016; 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; Edgar Award for Best Novel 2016; 2015 Centre for Fiction First Novel Prize
ISBN:
9781472151360 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6F
LC class:
PS3614.G97
Local class:
FICF
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1541143