- Fiction, short stories (single author), New York Times reviewed, Vietnamese, Fiction
vii, 209 pages ; 22 cm
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Classical in form, grave, prestige and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Viet Thanh Nguyen
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group Limited, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781472153784
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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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