The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the novel The Sympathizer (Grove Press, 2015). He also authored Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002) and co-edited Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (University of Hawaii Press, 2014). An associate professor at the University of Southern California, he teaches in the departments of English and American Studies and Ethnicity.He has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (2011-2012), the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2008-2009) and the Fine Arts Work Center (2004-2005). He has also received residencies, fellowships, and grants from the Luce Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, the James Irvine Foundation, the Huntington Library, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Creative Capital and the Warhol Foundation.His short fiction has been published in Manoa, Best New American Voices 2007, A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross-Cultural Collision and Connection, Narrative Magazine, TriQuarterly, the Chicago Tribune, and Gulf Coast, where his story won the 2007 Fiction Prize.His writing has been translated into Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Spanish, and he has given invited lectures in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Germany. He is finishing an academic book titled War, Memory, Identity.

出版者:Grove Press

作者:Viet Thanh Nguyen

页数:384

出版时间:2015-4-7

价格:USD 26.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780802123459

图书标签:小说越南普利策战争英文原版美国外国文学历史

A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties.

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 gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.

读后感

I would rate the book 3.5 stars out of 5. Nguyen is truly a master of language. His elaborate wording renders the book nothing short of a joy to read. However, I am a bit disappointed in how the plot unravels in the final few chapters where Nguyen seems to ...

不少人来问，为何《同情者》的作者Viet Thanh Nguyen，上海译文出版社2018年8月出版的版本译作【阮清越】，与台版译本和网络资料显示的“阮越清”不一致。理由如下： 首先，我与作者邮件联系，他署名Viet，即Vietnam（越南）的“越”。一般来说，如果是三字人名，署名会署最后...  

用户评价

the battle and two politics

the battle and two politics

可能因为越南人梗已经过去了 外加作者用词太难 居然断断续续看了一个多月

2018.8.15-10.28. “Nothing”.

才开始看的时候觉得政治因素主导得奖 而越读越发现这个故事厉害 以及作者在叙述中的评论 最后几章完全手不释卷。看到有个评论说作者在用GRE词汇写书 笑死~