I cannot remember the last time I read a novel whose protagonist I liked so much. The Sympathizer will both startle and grip you (BuzzFeed)Īn early frontrunner for debut novel of the year (Flavorwire (10 Must-Read Books for April)) Nguyen knows of what he writes (Los Angeles Times)Īn important new perspective on the Vietnam War. The Sympathizer reads as part literary historical fiction, part espionage thriller and part satire. Nguyen's darkly comic novel offers a point of view about American culture that we've rarely seen ( (Oprah?s Book Club Suggestions)) This debut is a page-turner (read: everybody will finish) that makes you reconsider the Vietnam War. I haven't read anything since Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four that illustrates so palpably how a patient tyrant, unmoored from all human constraint, can reduce a man's mind to liquid (Washington Post) has written a cerebral thriller around a desperate expat story that confronts the existential dilemmas of our age. An absurdist tour de force that might have been written by a Kafka or Genet (New York Times Book Review)Įxtraordinary.
His book fills a void in the literature, giving voice to the previously voiceless.
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