Viet Thanh Nguyen and the Vietnam wounds remained open
Renato Graziano reviews The Sympathizer and The Displaced by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Nuova Societa. Fra gli innumerevoli ospiti del recente Salone del Libro 2019, Viet Thanh Nguyen è fra i meno conosciuti ma, a mio modesto avviso, fra i più rilevanti e meritevoli di essere letti. Vietnamita di nascita (1971) arriva a quattro anni assieme alla […]
Arrived – at what price? Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about Vietnamese refugees
Katharina Borchardt reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen in this article for Neue Zürcher Zeitung. In zwei grossen Wellen trafen zwischen 1975 und Mitte der 1980er Jahre vietnamesische Flüchtlinge in den USA ein. Auch Viet Thanh Nguyen zählte zu ihnen – und der 1971 in Buôn Ma Thuôt geborene Autor hat aus solchen Schicksalen […]
NOTHING EVER DIES
Sara Camaiora reviews Nothing Ever Dies by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Mangialibri. “Se l’anima dell’America morirà avvelenata, sul referto dell’autopsia dovrà esserci scritto Vietnam”. Sono parole di Martin Luther King, fanno riflettere sul significato più profondo di quel conflitto sanguinoso e doloroso che si è svolto tra Vietnam, Cambogia, Laos, con innumerevoli morti da ogni […]
REFUGEES
Sara Camaiora reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Mangialibri. Donare le parole agli altri, è questo il suo lavoro. Come fa con Victor Donato, unico sopravvissuto di un incidente aereo nel quale ha perso moglie e figli. È una “ghost writer”, scrive libri per conto di altri. È concentrata su questa vicenda e […]
VIET THANH NGUYEN The Sympathizer. Reviewed by Kurt Johnson
Kurt Johnson reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen for The Newtown Review of Books. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel The Sympathizer shows the Vietnam war from a Vietnamese perspective, critiquing Hollywood’s renderings of the conflict in the process. When Ed Burns and Lynn Novick’s 17-hour documentary The Vietnam War was released in 2017, it rightly received […]
The Refugees – The search for a new identity
Francesca Polistina reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Migazin. Acht Erzählungen hat Viet Thanh Nguyen in diesem Band versammelt. Sie sind angesiedelt in den Siebziger- und Achtzigerjahren, handeln von Menschen, die aus Vietnam geflüchtet sind und versuchen, in Amerika eine neue Heimat zu finden. Identität ist vielleicht das wichtige Wort im Viet Thanh […]
If the war had not been
Lea Schneider reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen in this article for Suddeutsche Zeitung. Viet Thanh Nguyen erzählt in Short Stories über die Flucht aus dem kriegsversehrten Vietnam der Siebzigerjahre. Er will alle Beteiligten als Subjekte darstellen: aktiv und verantwortlich.Von Lea Schneider Wer 2018 ein Buch mit dem Titel “Die Geflüchteten” aufschlägt, dürfte darin Geschichten über […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen, “The Refugees”, Neri Pozza Ed., Vicenza, 2017
Andrea Giostra of MobMagazine reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Recensione di Andrea Giostra Come per tutti i grandi artisti, come per tutti i grandi scrittori, per comprendere la poietica di Viet Thanh Nguyen, occorre inevitabilmente conoscere la sua storia, le origini, le vicende che hanno attraversato la sua vita, da cosa è stato […]
“The Refugees”: The new storytelling book by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Beate Meierfrankenfeld reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for BR24. “Die Geflüchteten”, von denen Viet Thanh Nguyen in seinem neuen Buch erzählt, das sind Menschen, die alles verloren haben, versehrte Erwachsene in den USA, auf der Suche nach einem neuen Leben und Kinder, die zwischen den Kulturen Fuß fassen müssen. Manchmal werden die Überreste […]
A double-spy strange odyssey
Jakob Carlander reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Upsala Nya Tidning. Jakob Carlander får nya perspektiv på Vietnamkriget efter att ha läst den amerikanske författaren Viet Thanh Nguyens prisade roman “Sympatisören”. Det finns ett talesätt som många flerkulturella människor genast kan identifiera sig med: Den som har två hemländer har inget. Den amerikanske […]
He portrays a fragmented Vietnam and refugee life in the United States
Maria Edström reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Göteborgs-Posten. Viet Thanh Nguygens prisade debutroman Sympatisören berättar om det “amerikanska kriget” ur en vietnamesisk spions synvinkel. Maria Edström läser en överlastad roman som lyfter först när den skildrar ett förött flyktingliv i USA. ”Vietnam är nära, utanför ditt fönster” sjöng den svenska Vietnamrörelsens sånggrupp […]
Bill Ruehlmann: In “The Displaced,” we see immigrants, see ourselves
Bill Ruehlmann reviews The Displaced by Viet Thanh Nguyen for The Virginian-Pilot. Sometimes a true story by a complete stranger can hit you like a stomach punch. There are 18 of them in “The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives” (Abrams Press, 190 pp., $25), edited by Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, also recipient […]
Geland tussen twee werelden
Kris Mattheeuws reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Literair Nederland. De vluchtelingen Viet Thanh Nguyen Vertaling door: Paul Bruijn Verschenen bij: Uitgeverij Marmer (2018) ISBN: 9789460683770 240 pagina’s Prijs: € 19,99 Bestel Elke dag worden we in het journaal overspoeld door verhalen over vluchtelingen. De vaak schrijnende en mensonwaardige omstandigheden zijn dagelijkse kost waar velen al […]
Where is home?
Graa Boomsma reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for De Groene Amsterdammer. Viet Thanh Nguyen laat zien dat het oude vaderland niet iets is wat je kunt afschudden als je in een nieuw land woont. Wie denkt zijn lot altijd in eigen handen te kunnen houden, bedriegt zichzelf. ‘De sympathisant’ van de Amerikaans-Vietnamese schrijver Viet […]
Book Review: Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Jiachen Zhang reviews Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen for the British Association for American Studies. Viet Thanh Nguyen, a professor in American Studies who won a Pulitzer-Prize for his book, The Sympathizer (2015), opens up his 2016 treatise on memory and war with a powerful sentence: ‘All wars are […]
