Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2016
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 gripping spy novel,an astute exploration of extreme politics,and a moving love story,The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature,film,and the wars we fight today.
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9781472151360Number of pages: 384Weight: 304 gDimensions: 197 x 130 x 26 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'A fierce novel written in a refreshingly high style and charged with intelligent rage.'- The Financial Times
'This impressive debut contains a Whitman-like multiplicity...A bold,artful and globally minded reimagining of the Vietnam war...The Sympathizer is an excellent literary novel,and one that ends,with unsettling present-day resonance,in a refugee boat where opposing ideas about intentions,actions and their consequences take stark and resilient human form.'- The Guardian
'(A) remarkable debut novel...His book fills a void in the literature,giving voice to the previously voiceless...An absurdist tour de force that might have been written by a Kafka or Genet'- The New York Times Book Review
'Beautifully written and meaty'- Claire Messud
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