![]() ![]() No one in this book is innocent, nor is anyone clearly a villain.Ĭontinuing the dual nature of this story, our narrator lives much of his life in Vietnam, but a good amount of the story takes place in America. Like our narrator, many of the characters are not named or given an impersonal nickname, which presumably makes betrayal and killing a bit easier. The book opens as he’s writing his confession, so he’s clearly been captured – but by which side? Much of this story plays on dual identities and at the same time, the lack of real identity. ![]() The narrator, who is never named, works for the General and flees Vietnam with him when the communist army takes over but he’s secretly working for the communists. The story is told from the perspective of a man who is a double agent, so we see both sides of the conflict. Right away it makes you realize how much Americans only see the Vietnam War from our own perspective, not those of the people who lived and fought there. ![]() It’s a fascinating look at the Vietnam War and its aftermath from the perspective of the Vietnamese. ![]() The Sympathizer is a first novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, which won last year’s Pulitzer Prize for literature. ![]()
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