Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
The short answer is no, but also kind of yes. Matt Spriggs writes about ‘The Sympathizer’ and how fictional Viet Thanh Nguyen’s work really is for Esquire A work of
“After 40, most of us start to panic about what we have (or haven’t) accomplished. Me? I’m learning that there’s more to life than being a famous writer”, Viet Thanh
Esquire‘s editors chose The Sympathizer as one of their most influential books of the decade. To choose the ten best books of the decade is, of course, an impossible task.
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Sympathizer and The Refugees and the role of memory in his books in this interview with Eugenio Gianetta in Esquire. Ci incontriamo appena prima di
Angela Ledgerwood includes Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees on the Esquire list of the 50 best books of 2017. Whether you like your reading sexy and satirical or political and polarizing, these