Shortlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award White Read-Aloud Award (Book of the Year, Adult Fiction) Bingham Prize for Debut Fictionįinalist for the 2016 Medici Book Club Prizeįinalist for the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Mystery/Thriller)įinalist for the 2016 ABA Indies Choice/E.B. Winner of the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Creative Writing (Prose)įinalist for the 2016 PEN/Robert W. ![]() Winner of the 2016 California Book Award for First Fiction Winner of the 2015-2016 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (Adult Fiction) Winner of the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity and America, a gripping espionage novel, and a powerful story of love and friendship. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a "man of two minds," a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. ![]() The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as seven other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize, a startling debut novel from a powerful new voice featuring one of the most remarkable narrators of recent fiction: a conflicted subversive and idealist working as a double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. " remarkable debut novel." -Philip Caputo, New York Times Book Review (cover review) Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel ![]() Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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