Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and Vietnam war refugee Nguyen on US identity
Eve Jackson and Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Sympathizer as well as the Hollywood-isation of the Vietnam War for France 24. From ‘Apocalypse Now’ to ‘Platoon’, from Graham Greene’s ‘The Quiet American’ to Michael Herr’s ‘Dispatches’, when you consider the so-called ‘best’ books and films about the Vietnam War, few come from Vietnamese voices. […]
