The sympathizer / Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781410482624 (hardback)
ISBN: 1410482626 (harback)
Physical Description: 671 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press Large Print, 2015.
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 663-665).

Summary, etc.:

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. A spy novel, an exploration of extreme politics, and a love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and in the wars we fight today.