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Genre/Form: | Andrew Carnegie Medal Spy stories Historical fiction Fiction Romans (teksten) Spy fiction Mystery and detective fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Viet Thanh Nguyen |
ISBN: | 0802123457 9780802123459 1472151372 9781472151377 9780802124944 0802124941 080219169X 9780802191694 |
OCLC Number: | 890615165 |
Awards: | Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Asian/Pacific American Award for Adult Fiction, 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author, Mystery Writers of America, 2016 |
Description: | 371 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The story of a South Vietnamese captain -- a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America -- who returns to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. |
Responsibility: | Viet Thanh Nguyen. |
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Abstract:
A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties
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