The Sympathizer

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Viet Thanh Nguyen (1971) nació en Vietnam y creció en Estados Unidos. Es el ganador del Premio Pulitzer de Ficción 2016 por la novela The Sympathizer. Es autor de los libros académicos Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War y Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. Desde hace muchos años ejerce como crítico cultural para Los Angeles Times e imparte clases de Literatura Inglesa y American Studies and Ethnicity en la Universidad de Southern California. Es editor del blog Diacritics.org, centrado en el arte, la cultura y la política vietnamitas desde la diáspora . Vive en Los Ángeles.