Pulitzer Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen Explores War and its Aftermath
Elizabeth Rosner of the San Francisco Chronicle reviews Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. “All wars are fought twice,” writes Viet Thanh Nguyen. “The first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” It’s a notion that Nguyen, born in Vietnam in 1971 and raised in San Jose, has been exploring […]
8Books Reviews Nothing Ever Dies
Lily Wong of 8asians reviews Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. The second book out from author Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, is a sharp non-fiction work that deals in the theoretical world of remembrance, forgetting, humanity, and its lack. Nguyen is much in the news these […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen on ‘The Sympathizer’ | AACES at Yale University
Viet Thanh Nguyen reads The Sympathizer and discusses his books at the Asian American Colloquium and Event Series held by Yale University. Here is the transcript: Jing Tsu: Welcome to the second to last event from our Asian American Colloquium Event Series of this year. My name is Jing Tsu. I’m the Chair of […]
In Vietnam, forgetting the ‘American war’
Brian Bethune reviews Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War for Maclean’s. Memory is much on our minds now in regard to war, if only because we are reliving, through 100th anniversary lenses, the war that changed the way we remember war. To read Nguyen, a beautiful stylist and a subtle prober of […]
Booklist Gives Nothing Ever Dies a Starred Review
Donna Seaman reviews Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War for Booklist. Nguyen’s debut novel, The Sympathizer (2015), a complex tale of the Vietnam War, garnered the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and landed on more than two dozen best-of-the-year lists. Readers will discover the roots of Nguyen’s powerful fiction in […]
Library Journal Reviews Nothing Ever Dies
Joshua Wallace of the Library Journal reviews Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. What does it mean to remember a war? Nguyen (English, Univ. of Southern California; The Sympathizer) explores this question through a critical analysis of the films, literature, cemeteries, statues, video games, etc. that memorialize the Vietnam War in the […]
