- Communists, Soldiers, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Fiction
Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.
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Grave, classical in form, bleak and prestige.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 391
- Publisher
- Mineumsa/Tsai Fong Books, Make Boluo wen hua, בבל
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- Chinese, English, heb
- ISBN
- 9781472151360
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Viet Thanh Nguyen (born March 13, 1971) is a Vietnamese-American novelist. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Nguyen's debut novel, *The Sympathizer*, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction among other accolades, including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from an American Author from the Mystery Writers of America, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Fiction from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Associ
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