A National Bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice An Amazon Best Book of the Year So Far (#5) One of Newsday’s "10 Books Not to Miss in April" A Publishers Weekly Debut Fiction Pick A Library Journal Best Debut of Spring One of Kirkus Reviews' "10 Novels to Lose Yourself In" and a Must-Read Pick for Spring A Flavorwire Must-Read Book for Apirl Shortlisted for the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a South Vietnamese general is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his captain, drawing up a list of those who will be on the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that the captain is observing and reporting on the group to the Viet Cong. Exploring a life between two worlds, The Sympathizer examines the legacy of the Vietnam War.


About the Author:

Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the academic books Race and Resistance and Nothing Ever Dies. He is a cultural critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times and teaches English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles.