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- Title: The Sympathizer
- Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- ISBN: 9781472151360
- Page: 468
- Format: Paperback
[PDF] The Sympathizer | by Ò Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer It is April 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 seIt is April [PDF] The Sympathizer | by Ò Viet Thanh Nguyen - The Sympathizer, The Sympathizer It is April 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 give
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[PDF] The Sympathizer | by Ò Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Being an English major from UCBerkeley and an Artistic Director of Asian American Theater Company for 3 years, I ve run across a lot of Asian American works Though my heart is always with these stories, they ve often lacked style Viet Nguyen has style He s really funny, in a smart unpredictable way And I think he s is going to get a lot of awards and all that when word really gets out Deservedly so because it touches all the big points of Vietnamese American history while never getting bogged do [...]
Another Update 2nd update I ve been reading through my Kindle book again the last few days of this book looking over my notes taking new ones Our local book club is meeting to talk about The Sympathizer 25 of members from around the Bay Area are attending.with 25 others on the waitlist For people who live in our area this is an important topic Americans and Vietnamese Americans live closely together here The Vietnamese culture thrives in our city Right after I read this book the first time over [...]
This is without a doubt an important story to tell ousands of refugees wailed as if attending a funeral, the burial of their nation, dead too soon, as so many were, at a tender twenty one years of age The writing is as good as I found in The Refugees but I wasn t immediately drawn in and had a difficult time trying to understand what was happening during the evacuation, but I m guessing that it reflects the reality of what it must have been like Our narrator, the Captain , a double agent, introd [...]
Pulitzer Prize winner and I don t always agree, and such is the case here A very worthy book, a book with so many truisms, such as this one booted hard by the irony of how revolution fought for independence and freedom could make those things worth less than nothing The tone is ironic, often satirical but it gets to be too much, wearing on me as I was reading Almost became a chore to shift through some of this to get to the parts that meant something to me I little remember the Vietnam War, was [...]
Forty years ago this month, after a long, deadly release of flatulence from American politicians, the United States evacuated its personnel from Saigon in an operation appropriately code named Frequent Wind Whether you were alive then or not, the images of those panicked Vietnamese crushing the U.S Embassy are tattooed on our collective consciousness.In the opening pages of Viet Thanh Nguyen s extraordinary first novel, The Sympathizer, that terror feels so real that you ll mistake your beating [...]
I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds With these words Viet Thanh Nguyen decides to start the novel and these two sentences were enough to get me hooked They managed to intrigue me, to want to know and set the basis for what will prove to be one of the main theme, the interior conflict of the narrator The Symphatizer is a book about the Vietnam War and its aftermath The book is about loyalty, identity and the difficulty to adju [...]
If you ever struggle with your feelings and understanding about America s role in the Vietnam War, this book could give you a useful framework to both widespread blaming and forms of forgiveness to both sides There really was no right side to be on, and the Vietnamese people became a pawns in a larger struggle Our country itself was cursed, bastardized, partitioned into north and south, and if it could be said of us that we chose division and death in our uncivil war, that was also only partiall [...]
My mother was native, my father was foreign, and strangers and acquaintances had enjoyed reminding me of this ever since my childhood, spitting on me and calling me bastard, although sometimes, for variety, they called me bastard before they spit on me.I didn t realize how much I ve gotten used to not needing to pay attention to the books I read Reading this one was as much a chore as it was a joy Words, sentences, entire paragraphs that required, no demanded I pay heed Here was inexplicably lo [...]
So clever and witty but also gripping.
I read this book for many reasons Pulitzer winner, and a book club pick for my in person group We discussed it last night, and I wanted to wait to weigh in until that discussion, but also until I had finished reading the author s non fiction book Nothing Ever Dies Vietnam and the Memory of War on the long list for the National Book Award as we speak When you read the two books back to back, it is easy to see how the eleven years of research that went into the non fiction academic treatment of a [...]
Powerful Personalization of Vietnamese and Vietnam War s Fallout Winner of 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Literature This novel profoundly personalized for me the Vietnam War and the Vietnamese in a way no movie or book has It is written as the first person account of a South Vietnamese captain who was born a bastard to a Vietnamese mother who was seduced and impregnated by his father, a Catholic priest, who fails to recognize the captain as a son The narrator captain is a sympathizer to the communist o [...]
4.5ish stars At times hilarious, at others disturbing, and sometimes both at once, this is a story about war, identity, friendship, loyalty and understanding I ll admit to not having the most extensive understanding of the Vietnam War It was before my time and if I was ever taught about it in school I m sure it had to have come up at some point, right it s lost on me now My background knowledge basically comes from watching Apocalypse Now which is the obvious inspiration for a movie in the novel [...]
I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds I am not some misunderstood mutant from a comic book or a horror movie, although some have treated me as such I am simply able to see any issue from both sides Sometimes I flatter myself that this is a talent, and although it is admittedly one of a minor nature, it is perhaps also the sole talent I possess At other times, when I reflect on how I cannot help but observe the world in such a fa [...]
I loved The Refugees I loved the writing and I loved Viet Thanh Nguyen s perspective on the experiences of Vietnamese refugees in the United States So I was excited to read The Sympathizer, Thanh Nguyen s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Unfortunately, I didn t love it in the way I loved The Refugees I m conflicted as to why One of Thanh Nguyen s strengths is his incredible writing at times playful, often cutting elegantly to the heart of the matter and always strong and intelligent For that reason [...]
3.5 starsI can see howThe Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen s complex novel focusing on the post Vietnam War experience, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year It s plenty thought provoking and weighty, uncompromsing in its candor It has a snarky sense of humor It provides a underrepresented to contemporary fiction, anyway viewpoint of the Vietnamese diaspora here in the United States Would it, though, have gotten my vote for the Pulitzer Nope I can think of several titles deserving Even one [...]
GOODBYE VIETNAMSono una spia, un dormiente, un fantasma, un uomo con due facce E un uomo con due menti diverse, anche se questo probabilmente non stupir nessuno.I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds.E per essere una buona spia la prima regola non dire bugie, ma verit che possono significare come minimo due cose risultare illeggibile essere un uomo sincero che crede in tutto quello che dice anche quando mente vero, gli US hanno f [...]
I see the value that this book contributes to American literature I read New York Times review just a few minutes ago didn t want anything to interfere with my understanding of the book , and for most part I d like to agree.Few years I go when I was still in college, I took this class in art history and the famous Vietnam Veteran Memorial came up Let s not talk about the architecture s significance, but my young mind at that time was just full of surprise What about the South Vietnamese Where ar [...]
I m so disappointed with this book It started off so strong but then lost me as it went on A book about the end of the Vietnam War and the Vietnamese refugees that come to America The narrator, the unnamed Captain, however, is not pro American He is a double agent for the Communists Initially, he is tasked with working as an aide de camp for a South Vietnamese general He leaves with the general and family to go to America I am a spy, a spook, a man of two faces He is a sympathizer, but in his ey [...]
The Sympathizer, written by Viet Thanh Nguyen, is a sweeping novel of Vietnamese and American culture after the fall of Saigon seen through the eyes of a half French, half Vietnamese intellectual communist double agent Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Price for Fiction, the author writes from different perspectives showing us the lives of Vietnamese refugees who settled in America after the war With beautiful prose, and some humor, The Sympathizer is about war and its aftermath, friendship, and betra [...]
I loved Thanh Nguyen s The Refugees, so I was eager to read his Pulitzer winner debut novel.I m glad to report that my admiration of Thanh Nguyen s talent remains intact.There are a gazillion reviews of this novel, so I ll only write some thoughts.I don t recall ever reading a book about the Vietnam war I watched some movies on the subject, but they were distinctly American To be honest, I don t think I grasped what exactly had happened.The Sympathizer is an important novel, as it s written by a [...]
So now what is there to do Still awake and it is four fifteen in the morning These gales of endless emotions have ripped through these past three hours in my wordless torment and wonder Devoting myself to whatever feelings swept over me I would not corral them with words Roped to the mast of a ship I would endure Waking late this morning there is little difference Where is time and shouldn t it being doing its chore to lessen by degree Time is one essence captured within the glass earthenware ja [...]
4.5 stars Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as several other awards Pretty impressive for an author s debut novel I was the fortunate winner of a giveaway for this book and I heartily thank Grove Atlantic for their generosity What is a sympathizer To be in sympathy intellectually to feel or show support for or approval of something The narrator of the story, who remains nameless throughout the book and is only known to us as Captain, is writing his confession to the Commandan [...]
We ve had many examinations of the Vietnam war from the American point of view, but here s one from the opposing side Our narrator the unnamed Captain is an aide to an important General in the South Vietnamese nationalist army and also an undercover communist agent The story begins at the end of the conflict, with the Captain engineering a breathless escape to California from a ruined Saigon, along with the General, several army officials and their families One of his two closest friends, Bon, a [...]
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for FictionUsually, when I write my thoughts about a story, I look for a good quote as a lead in Sometimes, it s hard to find such a quote, whereas in other cases, I find myself having a luxury of choosing from as many as a dozen good quotes that I loved while reading the novel.But with Sympathizer, it s just plain crazy When I reached the last page of the novel, I looked back at the highlighted lines I saved, and I found myself with over EIGHTY different me [...]
I m not sure about the rest of Canada, but I didn t learn much about the Vietnam War during my high school history classes WWI and WWII were taught as highlight reel of major events, cliff notes on battles fought, assassinations of Archdukes, and the social fallout of the wars Little time was spent in the years that followed, though there was usually a slide on the Cold War Somewhere on that slide the Vietnam War would find itself a bullet point part of a list rather than a horrid conflict.This [...]
13h 53 m narrated by Francois Chau To begin this review I feel the need to share that as I was listening to the audiobook I began to wonder how books qualify for the Pulitzer Prize So I did a bit of searching online and discovered that It the Pulitzer recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during the preceding calendar year I then spent sometime perusing the complete list of winners and nominees of this prize since 1917 It appears [...]
The Darkness of DemocracyWhen Donald Trump blasts Make America Great Again , it may not be obvious that again has a very specific historical reference the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the day the United States lost its first war This event opens The Sympathizer The Donald cannot mention Vietnam it is still too painful and embarrassing a topic in American politics even after than 40 years There was no attack on a US ship in the Tonkin Gulf, there were no dominoes waiting to fall, there were [...]
Narrated by a man of mixed race, about a country divided north south and communist capitalist, my impression of this year s big prize winner divides along the lines of form and content This excels thematically, ideologically, intellectually, by underlining and undermining occidental views of the Orient, twisting them around so they re seen from an underrepresented perspective, most obviously for example when about the extras Vietnamese refugees in the Philippines during the filming of the Auteur [...]
04 18 2016 This book just won this year s Pulitzer Prize Award for Fiction Well deserved for plot, etc clickhereto get to my reading journal Otherwise, carry on.The narrator of this novel, the titular sympathizer, is definitely a man of two faces, and faces a number of contradictions In fact, this thought provoking novel is so filled with contradictions that this two faces idea runs throughout the book In the narrator s case, he is a man of mixed parentage, a fact that has helped to define his i [...]
I put reviews off for as long as humanly possible Consistently.It s what I do I procrastinate And then I finally post a review and I m adorably like look at me post this three months after I read it lolol and everyone loves it and we all hug and drink tea or whatever.That s a usual occurrence.But I have now outdone even myself.I am writing this review a year after I read the book.Yes, you read that correctly One calendar year after I read this book, I am attempting to share my thoughts on it wit [...]