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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 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction | Việt Thanh Nguyen Longlist Interview
For twenty-five years, more than 125 hardworking and distinguished judges have had a panoramic view of non-fiction publishing. They have recognised works of current affairs,
KRON4 San Francisco | Viet Thanh Nguyen, Minnie Phan, Pulitzer Prize winning author joins Oakland artist on new children’s book about 2020 wildfires
It wasn’t that long ago that massive wildfires scorched parts of California, forcing the evacuations of tens of thousands of people in the Bay Area.
Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters | Ep. 58 – THE SYMPATHIZER Thriller Confronts and Subverts Power – A Conversation with author Viet Thanh Nguyen
Season 4 kicks off with Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Sympathizer which was adapted into an HBO limited series
USC Annenberg Media | How ‘The Sympathizer’ and its Vietnamese actors broke new ground in Hollywood – despite an Emmys snub
Actors Vy Le and Duy Nguyen discuss their experiences as Vietnamese actors and representation in Hollywood for elevASIAN at USC Annenberg Media When “The Sympathizer”
Zeteo | Viet Nam, Gaza, and the Power of Spectacle
Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen on how Hollywood has become the US military-industrial complex’s unofficial ministry of propaganda for Zeteo This is a tale
Sette | Nella Londra Di Oggi Ascesa e Caduta Di Un Rampante Tipo
O’Hagan nella scia dei grandi autori British per Sette
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.