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Author Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-

Title The sympathizer / Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Publication Info. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
©2015

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  LP NGUYEN, V.    DUE 04-18-24
Edition Large print edition.
Description 671 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Series Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice
Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 663-665).
Summary It is April 1975 and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong. The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A spy novel, an exploration of extreme politics, and a love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and in the wars we fight today.
Subject Vietnam (Republic). Quân ḷưc -- Fiction.
Communists -- Vietnam (Republic) -- Fiction.
Moles (Spies) -- Fiction.
Eurasians -- Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Refugees -- Fiction.
Vietnamese -- United States -- Fiction.
Vietnam (Republic) -- Fiction.
Vietnam (Democratic Republic) -- Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.
FICTION -- Literary.
Vietnam (Republic). Quân ḷưc. (OCoLC)fst00580991
Vietnam War (1961-1975) (OCoLC)fst01431664
Communists. (OCoLC)fst00870612
Eurasians. (OCoLC)fst00916580
Moles (Spies) (OCoLC)fst01024891
Refugees. (OCoLC)fst01092797
Vietnamese. (OCoLC)fst01166629
California -- Los Angeles. (OCoLC)fst01204540
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Vietnam (Democratic Republic) (OCoLC)fst01864829
Vietnam (Republic) (OCoLC)fst01274298
Chronological Term 1961-1975
Genre/Form Large type books.
Spy stories.
Spy fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
Spy stories. (OCoLC)fst01726748
ISBN 9781410482624 (hardback)
1410482626 (harback)
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