The Sympathizer

by Viet Thanh Nguyen · first published 2015

The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese-American professor and writer Viet Thanh Nguyen. It depicts the anonymous narrator, a North Vietnamese mole in the South Vietnamese army, who stays embedded in a South Vietnamese community in exile in the United States after the end of the Vietnam War. While in the United States, the narrator describes being an expatriate and a cultural advisor on the production of an American film, closely resembling Platoon and Apocalypse Now, before returning to Vietnam as part of a guerrilla raid against the communists. The novel incorporates elements from a number of different novel genres: mystery, political, metafiction, dark comedic, historical, spy, and war.

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Genre:

War, Historical fiction, Political fiction

Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 4.1 / 5 (21 on Open Library)

Year page:

2015