The sympathizer / Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Record details
- ISBN: 0802123457
- ISBN: 9780802123459
- ISBN: 9780802124944
- ISBN: 0802124941
- Physical Description: 371 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, [2015]
- Distributor: [Berkeley, CA] : Publishers Group West
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | 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. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Soldiers > Vietnam (Republic) > Fiction. Communists > Vietnam (Republic) > Fiction. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Spy fiction. |
Available copies
- 24 of 52 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kent Memorial Library - Suffield. (Show preferred library)
Holds
- 14 current holds with 52 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | FICTION NGUYEN (Text) | 32518132599534 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Babcock Library - Ashford | F Ngu (Text) | 33110139363913 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beacon Falls Public Library | FIC NGU (Text) | 33120131277276 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 04/05/2024 |
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | F NGUYEN, V. (Text) | 32544072365967 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | FIC Ngu (Text) | 33160132474662 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | F NGUYEN (Text) | 34030130841098 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 03/30/2024 |
Brookfield Library | F/NGUYEN (Text) | 34029132485904 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 04/05/2024 |
Burnham Library - Bridgewater | FIC NGUYEN (Text) | 36937002142819 | Adult Fiction | On holds shelf | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | FIC NGU (Text)
Series: Sympathizer, 1
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34014132967051 | Adult Fiction | On holds shelf | - |
Canterbury Public Library | FIC NGUYEN SYMPATHIZER #1 (Text) | 33190000406041 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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The Sympathizer
I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds. I am not some misunderstood mutant from a comic book or a horror movie, although some have treated me as such. I am simply able to see any issue from both sides. Sometimes I flatter myself that this is a talent, and although it is admittedly one of a minor nature, it is perhaps also the sole talent I possess. At other times, when I reflect on how I cannot help but observe the world in such a fashion, I wonder if what I have should even be called talent. After all, a talent is something you use, not something that uses you. The talent you cannot not use, the talent that possesses you--that is a hazard, I must confess. But in the month when this confession begins, my way of seeing the world still seemed more of a virtue than a danger, which is how some dangers first appear. The month in question was April, the cruelest month. It was the month in which a war that had run on for a very long time would lose its limbs, as is the way of wars. It was a month that meant everything to all the people in our small part of the world and nothing to most people in the rest of the world. It was a month that was both an end of a war and the beginning of . . . well, "peace" is not the right word, is it, my dear commandant? Excerpted from The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.