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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and illustrator Minnie Phan comes an unforgettable story of a Vietnamese American girl whose life is transformed by a wildfire.
Kirkus Reviews says “Stunning…. a powerful, multilayered depiction of an increasingly common situation.”
A Man of Two Faces
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life in a highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir.
He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America.
The Committed
Chicken of the Sea
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
The Refugees
The Refugees is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.
Kirkus Reviews says “many of the stories might have been written by a modern Flaubert, if that master had spent time in San Jose or Ho Chi Minh City.”Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. Nothing Ever Dies, a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction, explores a conflict that endures in Vietnamese and American memories.
Marilyn B. Young, author of The Vietnam Wars, calls this book “Beautifully written, powerfully argued, thoughtful, provocative.”Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field
HBO | Portraits from the Cast of ‘The Sympathizer’
What fun! Portrait mode with Viet, director Park Chan-wook, and the cast of THE SYMPATHIZER from HBO.
Los Angeles Times | How the Creators of HBO’s ‘The Sympathizer’ Explore the ‘American War’ through a Vietnamese Lens
Laura Zornosa interviews the creators ‘The Sympathizer’ on their journey to recreating Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning novel for the Los Angeles Times When Park Chan-wook read
Los Angeles Daily News | How HBO transformed Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel ‘The Sympathizer’ into a series
Along with the author, actors Kieu Chinh and Ky Duyen and producers Susan Downey and Don McKellar discuss the limited series ahead of its April
TIME Magazine | How The Sympathizer Counters 50 Years of Hollywood Vietnam War Narratives
Andrew R. Chow writes about Viet Thanh Nguyen and how his novel and forthcoming HBO series, The Sympathizer, pushes back against the hegemonic Hollywood narratives
UC Berkeley Library | Q&A: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Sympathizer,’ reflects on libraries, UC Berkeley, and the class that ‘radicalized’ him
Tor Haugan interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen on his time at Berkeley and how it has shaped him to who he is now for UC Berekley
Monocle Radio | Meet the Writers: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Is the near-universal game of “cowboys and Indians” just positive propaganda for genocide? When a Vietnamese-American watches ‘Apocalypse Now’, does he identify with the victim
About Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and numerous other awards. His most recent publication is his memoir, A Man of Two Faces. His other books are the sequel to The Sympathizer, The Committed; a short story collection, The Refugees; Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction); and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He has also published Chicken of the Sea, a children’s book written in collaboration with his son, Ellison. He is a University Professor, the Aerol Arnold Chair of English, and a Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, he is also the editor of The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives.