The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer #1)

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

What was it like to live in a time when one’s fate was not war, when one was not led by the craven and the corrupt, when one’s country was not a basket case kept alive only through the intravenous drip of American aid?

Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell.