作者简介

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.

内容简介

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.


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 depart...

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  • Salzig
    我擦太感同身受了:一个越共在西贡以及美国做卧底,成了两面人。讲美国的地方太一针见血了。"The eternal misconceptions and misunderstandings between East and West, and the moral dilemma faced by people forced to choose not between right and wrong, but right and right.“ 结尾是精华,讲越南的地方也同样的一针见血,让我一个中国人欲哭无泪。当主人公终于come to terms with他的双重身份,w/devastating consequences. Scathing, bleak, & utterly beautiful10-17
  • lieerli
    才开始看的时候觉得政治因素主导得奖 而越读越发现这个故事厉害 以及作者在叙述中的评论 最后几章完全手不释卷。看到有个评论说作者在用GRE词汇写书 笑死~05-11
  • Kerstin
    原谅我一时半会真的说不出话来04-04
  • 小裁缝
    “She had a mind like an abacus, the spine of a drill instructor andthe body of a virgin even after five children. all of this was wrappedup in one of those exteriors that inspired our Beaux Arts -trainedpainters to use the most posted of watercolors and the fuzziest ofbrushstrokes” Really Pulitzer?!05-15
  • 鱼伊尹
    3.8* Viet Tranh Nyuen seems to be one of the best scholarly writers of the generation11-01

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