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The Sympathizer

by Viet Thanh Nguyen · 2015

Literary Fiction · ranked #48 in category

Winner · The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2016

A communist spy serves as a captain in the South Vietnamese army and escapes to America after the fall of Saigon, all while writing a confession to an unnamed commandant. Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut is a dazzling, angry novel about colonialism, complicity and the double consciousness of the man who belongs to every side and none.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2015 · 2010s
Author
Viet Thanh Nguyen
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