Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
This trenchant compendium of lectures by Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Nguyen (A Man of Two Faces) expounds on “what it means to write and read from the position of an other.”
“A powerful, multilayered depiction of an increasingly common situation.” Viet Thanh Nguyen writes a children’s book set to release in May 2024. Read below for early reviews from Kirkus Reviews,
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s memoir, A Man of Two Faces, is reviewed by Publishers Weekly This bold and ambitious memoir from novelist Nguyen (The Committed) employs a dazzling hybrid of prose
The Committed is featured as one of Publisher’s Weekly‘s most anticipated books.
The Committed is featured in the Publishers’ Weekly newsletter. ‘The Committed’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen The long-awaited sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘The Sympathizer,’ ‘The Committed’ tells the story of
Hannah Kushnick of Publisher’s Weekly features The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives for BookCon 2018. The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, a startling anthology of essays by various authors,
Nat Sobel of Publishers Weekly reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new short story collection, The Refugees. Each searing tale in Nguyen’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-winning The Sympathizer is a pressure cooker
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War is reviewed by Publishers Weekly. Vietnam-born, American-raised Nguyen (The Sympathizer), an associate professor of English and American Studies at the University
The Sympathizer Makes it to Publishers Weekly’s Best Fiction of 2015 Publishers Weekly says that “Putting together our Best Books of 2015 list was a challenge because there are so
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This astonishing first novel has at its core a lively, wry first-person narrator called the Captain, and his two school friends Bon and Man, as they navigate the fall of
“This spring’s most-anticipated debut novels shake up traditional notions: Ben Metcalf takes on language and Southern culture; Viet Thanh Nguyen offers a new account of the Vietnam conflict, told from