The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer #1)

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape.

It’s also human nature to see the world and its conflicts as battles between right and wrong. Good and evil. If only things were so simple. Hegel is absolutely correct here. Any side in a conflict usually does see itself as right and the other side as wrong, but the other side feels exactly the same way. Hence, right versus right. How do you solve that? It’s very unfortunate in real life. In a novel, it’s exactly the type of dilemma that creates drama.