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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 and released in April 2024 for Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters Podcast on Spotify

The Sympathizer is described as an espionage thriller and cross-cultural satire about the struggles of its narrator, a half-French half-Vietnamese communist spy or double agent, known only as “the Captain” during the final days of the American war in Vietnam. A “man of two minds,” the Captain arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon. While building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles he is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam. The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity and America, and a powerful story of loyalty, love and friendship.

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