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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
The Manilla Times | Place and Displacement in the Fiction of Viet Thanh Nguyen
VIET Thanh Nguyen is a writer who has masterfully explored the complexities of identity, displacement and the human cost of war. His work, spanning fiction
Zeteo | ‘I Am Disappointed, Fearful, Numb.’ Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen Reflects on Trump ‘Racially Purifying’ the US
The acclaimed novelist’s essay on the Republicans’ attempt to take us back to the 19th century – and where he finds hope for Zeteo Donald
ACLU Bill of Rights Award 2024 | Viet Thanh Nguyen
The ACLU of Southern California’s annual Bill of Rights Awards on Sunday night honored Mark Ruffalo, “Will & Harper” stars Harper Steele and Will Ferrell, “The Sympathizer” author Viet
MSNBC | Democrats play the blame game, scapegoat minority groups after Trump’s win
After Donald Trump’s election victory, Democrats are now playing the blame game about why they lost. MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin discusses the many factors that caused
KPBS | Author Viet Thanh Nguyen unpacks identity and global struggles from Palestine to the climate catastrophe
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a writer, scholar and activist. His best-selling novel “The Sympathizer” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2016. His other works include
Zeteo | Lesser of Two Evils? Our Fight Is Against Both, No Matter How We Vote
Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen’s sobering message on the Quiet American versus the Ugly American in the US presidential election for Zeteo Either Kamala Harris or Donald
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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.
