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A very cool book, but I kept comparing it Orphan Master's Son (2013) and it was definitely second place to that gem. I'm surprised that the Pulitzer committee would pick two such similarly-themed books just three years apart.
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An intelligent book, rich in vocabulary and philosophy and history and psychology, The Sympathizer holds readers at a distance. While I felt horror and revulsion during the scenes fashioned to evoke such feelings (rape and torture scenes), I couldn't feel sorry for the nameless narrator, even as he agonized over the assassinations he was compelled to perform or his status as a lonely outsider. That he was two-faced was exactly the point, and I couldn't respect him. At best, I pitied him. The boo
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