TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nguyen,Viet Thanh
TI  - The sympathizer
SN  - 9780802124944 (pbk)
AV  - PS3614.G97 S96 2015
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Grove Press
KW  - Vietnamese
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Vietnam (Republic)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Communists
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Spy stories
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Spy fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles; "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"--Amazon.com
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