The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen • 2015
Devastation Rating
Vietnam colonialism identity war
Our Take
A communist spy embedded with South Vietnamese refugees confesses his entire life to an interrogator. Nguyen writes the Vietnam War from the side that American literature has ignored — not the American soldiers but the Vietnamese who were colonized by three successive powers and then asked to choose sides.
Appears In
► Colonialism and Its Aftermath — The Wound That Runs Forward ► Espionage — When Loyalty Becomes a Trap ► Vietnam War — The War America Still Cannot Name ► Belief and Violence — When Faith Becomes Weapon ► Exile and Displacement — The Country You Carry Inside You ► Spanish Civil War — The Last Good Cause and Its Betrayal ► Apartheid — The Architecture of Dehumanization ► Race in Britain — The Empire Comes Home
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