• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen: loyalty and duality

  • Sep 4 2024
  • Length: 49 mins
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The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen: loyalty and duality

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  • Neha and Shruti discuss The Sympathizer, the 2016 Pulitzer winner for fiction, through the themes of loyalty and duality. This book is a thriller and a satire, following a mixed race narrator who moves to the United States after the fall of Saigon, and must navigate his identity and his role as a communist spy. We talk about the book's historical context, its commentary on race and pop culture, and more.


    Links:

    Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen [NPR]


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