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.
发表于2025-01-22
The Sympathizer 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
Actually 4.5 stars. I spent the last month reading this book, and i just keep thinking about what will happen to the protagonist throughout reading it. I partially get the thing that Viet Thanh Nguyen want to express through the narrator, the protagonist an...
评分 评分 评分不少人来问,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...
评分这不是一本容易读的书,作者连篇累牍用了很多长长的句子,而且思绪奔放,穿插跳跃,从一件事突然转到其他事情上。 假如不是因为先在美国公共电台听过作者的采访,我怀疑自己能够耐心看完(实际上我听完整本书,相比阅读,听着稍微容易些)。 回到本书内容,作者的切入点很有趣...
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.
“She had a mind like an abacus, the spine of a drill instructor and the body of a virgin even after five children. all of this was wrapped up in one of those exteriors that inspired our Beaux Arts -trained painters to use the most posted of watercolors and the fuzziest of brushstrokes” Really Pulitzer?!
评分2018.8.15-10.28. “Nothing”.
评分"I'm dying because this world I'm living in isn't worth dying for! If something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live."
评分Audiobook. Would need to read/judge it again with written book
评分2017.9.8-9.12 最大的阅读愉悦来自语言的繁复幽默和文化上的共鸣。情节上其实感觉一般,最后的几章个人感觉有点头重脚轻。
The Sympathizer 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书