The Sympathizer Makes Mid-Year Best Novel Lists
The Sympathizer has critics everywhere buzzing. A highly praised cerebral thriller, Viet’s debut novel has made it on several mid-year best novel lists. See…(read more)
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Tom’s Book Club: Viet Nguyen at Chevalier’s Books
For the next installment of Tom’s Book Club, we will have a live event featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer (Grove/Atlantic, April 2015), in conversation…(read more)
KQED Interviews Viet, Andrew Lam and Aimee Phan
April 30th marked the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. Viet did a number of interviews, including this one with writers…(read more)
The Sympathizer Hits Bestseller Lists
The Sympathizer landed on four hardcover fiction bestseller lists this week. The four bestseller lists come from the independent bookseller associations of Northern and Southern…(read more)
BBC – Pulitzer Fiction Prize Winner: ‘People Fear Refugees’
Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks to Kasia Madera on the BBC’s Newsday programme about what inspired his writing. Viet Thanh Nguyen, a former Vietnamese refugee…(read more)
Book Tour Schedule for The Sympathizer
UPDATED August 17. 2015: check here for the most recent updates on Viet’s appearances Here’s Viet’s book tour schedule for THE SYMPATHIZER, beginning this…(read more)
Win a signed first edition of The Sympathizer!
Viet is the editor of diaCRITICS, the leading online source for news on Vietnamese and diasporic arts, culture, and politics. Subscribe to diaCRITICS for…(read more)
The Sympathizer Debuts in LA at Skylight Books on April 10th
Join Viet for the debut of his novel at Skylight Books in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles! Date: Friday, April 10th, 7:30PM Address: 1818…(read more)
Win a Free Copy of The Sympathizer!
Grove Press is doing a giveaway of The Sympathizer on Goodreads. Up to 25 copies available. Please go to the Goodreads page for the…(read more)
Library Journal: Starred Review for The Sympathizer
“Breathtakingly cynical,” “powerful, thought-provoking work,” “hard to believe this effort…is a debut,” “right up there with Denis Johnson’s Tree of Smoke,” “a big, bold…(read more)
Viet’s Appearances
Catch Viet at one of these appearances in the coming months and say hello! He will be presenting on his academic work or, at…(read more)
Publishers Weekly On The Sympathizer
“This spring’s most-anticipated debut novels shake up traditional notions: Ben Metcalf takes on language and Southern culture; Viet Thanh Nguyen offers a new account…(read more)
Advance Praise for The Sympathizer
“Magisterial. A disturbing, fascinating and darkly comic take on the fall of Saigon and its aftermath and a powerful examination of guilt and betrayal. The Sympathizer is…(read more)
Transpacific Studies now available!
Viet Nguyen and Janet Hoskins co-edit a new anthology on Transpacific Studies, a rising academic field that explores connections across and through the Pacific.…(read more)
Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field
Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field, edited by Janet Hoskins and Viet Nguyen. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2014. Buy the book here. The…(read more)
On Writing The Sympathizer
Viet Nguyen’s novel, THE SYMPATHIZER, will be published in April 2015. Here he talks about why he wrote it. The novel, THE SYMPATHIZER, begins…(read more)
