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 […]
The MLK Speech We Need Today Is Not the One We Remember Most
Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 speech, “Beyond Vietnam”, and its messages for this article on TIME. Most Americans remember Martin Luther King Jr. for his dream of what this country could be, a nation where his children would “not be judged by the color of their skin but by […]
Review of “The Refugees” by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Andrea Giostra reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for ilSicilia.it 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 segnato e da quali esperienze […]
“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 […]
Christmas reading for the voltage finder
Malin Krutmeijer reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen as part of holiday book recommendations for Aftonbladet. ”Sympatisören” av Viet Thanh Nguyen (Tranan) Det är med skohorn jag klämmer in Viet Thanh Nguyens Pulitzerprisbelönade Sympatisören i spänningsgenren, men den är faktiskt en spionroman. Spännande är det också, när den namnlösa huvudpersonen återberättar sina år som kommunistagent under Vietnamkriget. Han […]
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 […]
Telling Vietnam refugees: meeting with the Pulitzer Prize author Viet Thanh Nguyen
Matilde Quarti interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer for il Libraio. “Mi sembra che al giorno d’oggi ci sia ancora così tanta paura per i nuovi rifugiati perché i Paesi che li accolgono non riescono a vederli come esseri umani, ma solamente come una minaccia. Per questo credo che ci sia […]
Sống sót / Survival
In this article for the Daily Bruin, Kristie-Valerie Hoang interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen and reports on the Vietnamese-American identity and struggle in California. December 1978. Quyen Di Chuc Bui spent three nights in a Santa Ana parking lot when he first moved to California. During his arrival to the Golden State, the winter nightfall and […]
Victims of War, and Now Victims of the Trump Administration
Viet Thanh Nguyen and Eric Tang discuss the deportation of Vietnamese refugees under the Trump administration in this Opinion piece for the New York Times. What is an appropriate punishment for a crime? The plight of thousands of Vietnamese refugees convicted of crimes in the United States and now threatened with detention or deportation demands an answer […]
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 […]
General Education S2E14: High Frequency: Viet Thanh Nguyen
On the last episode of General Education by Daily Trojan, Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the Asian American identity, refugees, and the USC community. Karan talks with University professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen for this season’s final episode of General Education. Nguyen will start teaching at USC again next semester, after being on […]
I Love America. That’s Why I Have to Tell the Truth About It
Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer, talks about immigration in America and his experiences as a Vietnamese refugee in this essay for TIME. Love it or leave it. Have you heard someone say this? Or have you said it? Anyone who has heard these five words knows what it means, because it almost always refers to America. Anyone who has heard this sentence knows it is a loaded gun, pointed […]
Wesley Yang and the Search for Asian-American Visibility
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses Wesley Yang’s collection of essays, The Souls of Yellow Folk, for the New York Times Book Review. THE SOULS OF YELLOW FOLK Essays By Wesley Yang 215 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $24.95. My disappointment with Wesley Yang’s collection of essays, “The Souls of Yellow Folk,” stems from the difference between […]
