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Author Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- author.

Title The sympathizer / Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Publication Info. New York : Grove Press, [2016]
©2015

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Location Call No. Status
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  FIC NGUYEN    DUE 04-05-24
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  NGUY    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Maple Road Branch - Senior Center  F NGUYEN    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  NGUYEN    Check Shelf
Edition [Grove Press reprint edition]
Description 393 pages, 10 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Note "Grove Press; Reprint edition (April 12, 2016)"--Amazon.com.
Summary Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.
The story of a South Vietnamese captain -- a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America -- who returns to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause.
Awards Winner: Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Ficiton (2016) ; Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (2015-2016) ; California Book Award for First Fiction (2016) ; Center for Fiction First Novel Prize (2016) ; Dayton Library Peace Prize for Fiction (2016) ; Edgar Award for Best First Novel (2016) ; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2016).
Subject Vietnamese -- California -- Los Angeles.
Soldiers -- Vietnam (Republic) -- Fiction.
Communists -- Vietnam (Republic) -- Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction.
Vietnam (Republic) -- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction.
Vietnam War (1961-1975) (OCoLC)fst01431664
Communists. (OCoLC)fst00870612
Soldiers. (OCoLC)fst01125233
Vietnamese. (OCoLC)fst01166629
California -- Los Angeles. (OCoLC)fst01204540
Vietnam (Republic) (OCoLC)fst01274298
Chronological Term 1961-1975
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
Spy stories. (OCoLC)fst01726748
Spy stories.
Historical fiction.
Spy fiction.
Spy stories.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9780802124944 (paperback)
0802124941 (paperback)
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