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The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer #1), by Viet Thanh Nguyen

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

If you like THE SYMPATHIZER, you’ll probably love Charles Yu’s INTERIOR CHINATOWN, about a doomed actor known only as the Generic Asian Man. And Gina Apostol’s INSURRECTO, about movies, memory, and the American war in the Philippines. And the sequel to The Sympathizer, THE COMMITTED, which continues his misadventures in 1980s Paris. In The Sympathizer, I set out to offend everybody—Americans, communist Vietnamese, and anticommunist Vietnamese—and judging from my hate mail, I succeeded. Who else was left to offend? The French! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52260627-the-committed

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23 Feb 21 · Flag

Lemar

Thank you, what live questions you pose! I loved the Sympathizer. The line that said, for refugees of a war, it is always known simply as The War. One of the many lines and scenes that stay with me.

24 Feb 21 · Flag

Barbara

The Sympathizer was an emotionally difficult, but necessary read. I followed it with The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan. It's another beautifully written novel on a stomach churning…