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‘The Sympathizer’: Vietnamese Spy Encounters America

June 3, 2015

Tony Dushane interviews author Viet Thanh Nguyen for SF Gate. “The Sympathizer” recounts life after the fall of Saigon in 1975. Written by Viet Thanh Nguyen, the novel is a

SF Gate Reviews The Sympathizer

April 22, 2015

Thomas Chatterton Williams reviews Viet Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer for SF Gate. The unnamed narrator (he is simply “the captain) in “The Sympathizer,” Viet Thanh Nguyen’s powerful and evocative first