9 GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS BY AUTHORS BORN IN OTHER COUNTRIES
Emily Temple of the Literary Hub lists The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen in her list of nine American novels by foreign authors. First things first: what exactly is a Great American Novel? Opinions have long been divided on the subject, and the truth is, one person’s GAN is another’s trashy beach read. Er, probably. Still, I think […]
NOTHING EVER DIES: Vietnam and the Memory of War | By Viet Thanh Nguyen
Nguyễn Thị Điểu reviews Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen for the journal Pacific Affairs. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. viii, 374 pp. (Illustrations.) US$27.95, cloth. ISBN 978-0-674-66034-2. Decades ago, at the end of a devastating conflict, a flow of humanity, braving all dangers while paying a deadly price, […]
Spies Like Us: A Professor Undercover in the Literary Marketplace
Timothy K. August discusses The Sympathizer and other novels by Viet Thanh Nguyen in this review for Literature Interpretation Theory. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize win has fundamentally changed the way Vietnamese American writing is read. Or at least Nguyen is actively trying to change the way that Vietnamese American writing is read. Leveraging the access that […]
The eyes silent to see the wound
Nguyen Vinh Nguyen reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Tuổi Trẻ. TTCT – Ấy là khi con mắt nhìn vào vết thương cộng đồng vừa như kẻ dự phần nhưng vừa đứng cao hơn mọi định kiến để thấy đó là một mối cơ khổ phổ quát của nhân loại khi chiến tranh, đói […]
Nguyen Thanh Viet – Refugees
In this review for Tiếp Thị Thế Giới, Ngân Hà discusses The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Phần lớn người Việt Nam đọc sách, xem phim, hay bất kỳ một tác phẩm nghệ thuật nào đều thích có “thông điệp” – nó là một từ phổ biến đến nỗi ngay khi một người bạn biết tôi […]
21 books we loved in 2017
Amy Wang of Oregon Live reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Viet Thanh Nguyen, “The Refugees” (Grove Atlantic, 240 pages, $16) This collection of short stories is thematically united around the experience of Vietnamese immigrants following the Vietnam War, but in every other way differs beautifully in its approach (sometimes realist, as in “The […]
Best of 2017: 100 recommended books
The San Francisco Chronicle reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen and lists it on its 2017 recommended book list. The Refugees, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove; 209 pages; $25). Nguyen’s stories take a quietly profound peek into the lives of Vietnam’s deracinated and dispossessed.
The Best Reviewed Books of 2017: Short Story Collections
The Literary Hub reviews The Refugees and lists it in Best Reviewed Books of 2017. 4. The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen (12 Rave, 5 Positive) “The collection is full of refugees, whether from external turmoil – natural or manmade disasters – or from a deeper, more internal conflict between even those who are closest to each […]
Top 15 Books by Novelists of Colour Published in 2017
Samira Sawlani reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Media Diversified in this 2017 list for Top 15 Books by Novelists of Color. The Refugees, By Viet Thanh Nguyen Timely, touching and traumatic. This collection of short stories centred by Vietnamese- American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen is dedicated to ‘all refugees everywhere’, and is both […]
Paperback Row
Joumana Khatib adds Nothing Ever Dies by Viet Thanh Nguyen on Paperback Row’s 2017 book list for The New York Times. NOTHING EVER DIES: Vietnam and the Memory of War, by Viet Thanh Nguyen. (Harvard, $17.95.) “All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory,” Nguyen notes in this study of the war […]
The 24 Best Fiction Books Of 2017
Arianna Rebolini reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen and lists it in Buzzfeed‘s 24 Best Fictions Books of 2017. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s stunning short story collection is largely about exile and its aftermath. The stories explore what it is to be a refugee — what “refuge” quite literally looks like for those who have experienced […]
Spy with self-doubt
Danny Marques Marcalo reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Originally published by NDR. In vielen Büchern über den Vietnamkrieg geht es um die Erfahrungen amerikanischer Soldaten. In den USA hat vor zwei Jahren nun ein Roman aus vietnamesischer Perspektive für Furore gesorgt. Nun erscheint er auch in Deutschland. In “Der Sympathisant” erzählt Viet Thanh […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen | Der Sympathisant
Review of The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Krimirezensionen. April 1975: Die revolutionären Truppen Nordvietnams erobern den Süden. Die Amerikaner ziehen sich überhastet zurück und gewähren einer kleinen Zahl privilegierter Einheimischer ebenfalls die Flucht. Mit dabei ist auch der Ich-Erzähler, Adjutant eines südvietnamesisichen Generals, aber in Wahrheit ein kommunistischer Spion. Er war ein wichtiger […]
In Tunnels where Ghosts Dwell: War, Memory, and Identity
Peter Admirand reviews Nothing Ever Dies for newbooks.asia. Viet Thanh Nguyen. 2016. Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press ISBN 9780674663042 ‘Pack Your Bags.’ The Sergeant slapped the back of my father-in-law, a young marine at the time in the 1960s. ‘Pack your bags,’ the Sergeant grunted. The […]
Le Figaro Magazine Reviews The Sympathizer
The following is a review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, originally published in the French-language newspaper, Le Figaro Magazine. LA GUERRE DU VIETNAM est finie. Et avec elle, son cortège de romans sur l’offensive du Têt, l’évacuation dramatique de Saïgon, autant d’images de fer et de feu abondamment diffusées par le cinéma. L’auteur du Sympathisant, Viet […]
