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It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong.THE SYMPATHIZER is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, THE SYMPATHIZER explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.
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The sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2016
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- Titel
- The sympathizer
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Verlag
- Corsair
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2016
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1472151364
- ISBN13
- 9781472151360
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Krimi & Thriller, Politik, Freundschaft, Spannung, USA, Kriege, Literarische Fiktion, Asien, Spionage, Flucht, Spionageromane, Kommunismus, Hollywood, Flüchtlinge, Exil, Serienvorlagen, Integration, Politthriller, Vietnam, Pulitzer-Preis, Politische Romane, Vietnamesische Literatur, Doppelagenten
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2015
- Originaltitel
- The Sympathizer
- Bewertung
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- Beschreibung
- It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong.THE SYMPATHIZER is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, THE SYMPATHIZER explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.