Tag: colonization

Washington Post | Review by Lisa Ko

Nguyen’s ‘A Man of Two Faces’ tackles war, colonization, death and more, but still manages to be playful In a recent interview, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen spoke about

Book Riot | Best October Book Releases

“The author of The Sympathizer writes of his life since he was 4 when he and his family fled their hometown, Ban Mê Thuột, and came to the U.S. After being split from

Fiction: ‘The Committed’ Review

Sam Sacks reviews The Committed for The Wall Street Journal. The narrator of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Committed” (Grove, 345 pages, $27) is a man without a country or a name—we know

New York Journal of Books | The Committed

Elissa Greenwald reviews The Committed for the New York Journal of Books. “Readers eagerly await more from a writer whose finger is on the pulse of the 21st century. His