# The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) - Paperback

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by **Viet Thanh Nguyen** (Author)

**Now an HBO Limited Series from Executive Producers Park Chan-wook and Robert Downey Jr., Streaming Exclusively on Max**

**Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction**  
**Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel  
Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction**

**One of the _New York Times_'s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century**  
**One of _TIME_'s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time**

**"\[A\] remarkable debut novel."--Philip Caputo, _New York Times Book Review_ (cover review)**

**Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize, a startling debut novel from a powerful new voice featuring one of the most remarkable narrators of recent fiction: a conflicted subversive and idealist working as a double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.**

The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as seven other awards, _The Sympathizer_ is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, _The Sympathizer_ is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a "man of two minds," a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam.

_The Sympathizer_ is a blistering exploration of identity and America, a gripping espionage novel, and a powerful story of love and friendship.

### Author Biography

**Viet Thanh Nguyen** was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of _The Committed_, which continues the story of _The Sympathizer_, awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, alongside seven other prizes. He is also the author of the short story collection _The Refugees_; the nonfiction book _Nothing Ever Dies_, a finalist for the National Book Award; and is the editor of an anthology of refugee writing, _The Displaced_. He is the Aerol Arnold Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. He lives in Los Angeles.

**Number of Pages:** 384

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN

**Publication Date:** April 12, 2016

**Award:** PEN/Faulkner Award (2016)

## Details

- **Price:** 24.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Asian American, Books, Espionage, Fiction, Literary, Price Written on Book, Thrillers

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