Vrienden in Vietnam
Annemarie van Niekerk reviews The Sympathizer for Truow. Je hoeft niet over een kristallen bol te beschikken om te kunnen voorspellen dat er onder…(read more)
Reviews
Dawn: The Refugees
Dawn’s Hurmat Kazmi reviews the short stories within Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees, and comments on its timely publishing. Had he not deservedly won…(read more)
Ny Tid Reviews The Refugees
Birgitte Gustava Røthe Bjørnøy of Ny Tid reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees, noting the well-timed and universality of its themes. Reportes Without Borders kunne i…(read more)
Back to school: Vietnam at both ends
Philippe Chevilley reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer. Originally published on Les Echos. La guerre du Vietnam revue et corrigée par un étonnant agent…(read more)
The shock of Pulitzer
Francois Lestavel reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen and the Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. Originally published by Paris Match. Deux romanciers passent…(read more)
Telerama: The Sympathizer Review
Nathalie Crom reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Originally published on Telerama. 1975, chute de Saigon. Un agent double fuit aux Etats-Unis et…(read more)
Author provides voice for refugees
The NZ Herald reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s works The Sympathizer, The Refugees, and Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. The United States is…(read more)
Lettieri on Nguyen, ‘The Sympathizer: A Novel’
Antonella Lettieri reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer. Originally published by H-Amstdy. A Man of Two Faces 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winner The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh…(read more)
Kieran on Nguyen, ‘Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War’
David Kieran review Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. Originally published by H-Amstdy. A New Politics of…(read more)
El Cultural Reviews The Sympathizer
Philip Caputo reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer. Originally published by El Cultural. Cuanto más poderoso sea un país, más dispuesta estará su gente a…(read more)
Casualties of war: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen
Priyanka Kumar reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer. Originally published by Pasatiempo from The New Mexican. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning debut novel, The Sympathizer (Grove Press,…(read more)
Diplomatic History Reviews Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Christian G. Appy reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War in Volume 41 of Diplomatic History. Combining cultural analysis, philosophical…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees and Jim Shepard’s The World to Come, reviewed: History in the making
Steven W. Beattie reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees. Originally published on The Globe and Mail. *** Fiction and history share a symbiotic relationship.…(read more)
Sydney Morning Herald: The Refugees
Helen Elliot looks into the themes of loss, trauma, and possibility in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees in this review for The Sydney Morning Herald.…(read more)
In Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Refugees,’ wistfulness is an anthem of displacement
Karen Long reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees. Originally published by The Los Angeles Times. In a short time, Viet Thanh Nguyen has encircled…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen humanizes in ‘The Refugees’
Daily Arts Writer Samantha Lu reviews ‘The Refugees’. Originally published in Michigan Daily. It takes a certain type of genius to write endings the…(read more)
