Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the novel The Sympathizer (Grove Press, 2015). He also authored Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002) and co-edited Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (University of Hawaii Press, 2014). An associate professor at the University of Southern California, he teaches in the departments of English and American Studies and Ethnicity.
He has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (2011-2012), the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2008-2009) and the Fine Arts Work Center (2004-2005). He has also received residencies, fellowships, and grants from the Luce Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, the James Irvine Foundation, the Huntington Library, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Creative Capital and the Warhol Foundation.
His short fiction has been published in Manoa, Best New American Voices 2007, A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross-Cultural Collision and Connection, Narrative Magazine, TriQuarterly, the Chicago Tribune, and Gulf Coast, where his story won the 2007 Fiction Prize.
His writing has been translated into Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Spanish, and he has given invited lectures in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Germany. He is finishing an academic book titled War, Memory, Identity.
A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties.
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.
这不是一本容易读的书,作者连篇累牍用了很多长长的句子,而且思绪奔放,穿插跳跃,从一件事突然转到其他事情上。 假如不是因为先在美国公共电台听过作者的采访,我怀疑自己能够耐心看完(实际上我听完整本书,相比阅读,听着稍微容易些)。 回到本书内容,作者的切入点很有趣...
評分 評分这不是一本容易读的书,作者连篇累牍用了很多长长的句子,而且思绪奔放,穿插跳跃,从一件事突然转到其他事情上。 假如不是因为先在美国公共电台听过作者的采访,我怀疑自己能够耐心看完(实际上我听完整本书,相比阅读,听着稍微容易些)。 回到本书内容,作者的切入点很有趣...
評分the battle and two politics
评分the battle and two politics
评分可能因為越南人梗已經過去瞭 外加作者用詞太難 居然斷斷續續看瞭一個多月
评分太優秀瞭
评分A lack of knowledge about the Vietnam War made me detach from the novel. Nguyen was very critical of the role of the Americans in Vietnam. Neither grateful nor confrontational, he had such an angry tone towards American culture and Southern Vietnamese politics. Like his satirical approach to a political connoted literature work. SY 8/9
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