• Pulitzer Prize Winner • Edgar Award for Best First Novel • Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction • TIME's 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time •
"[A] remarkable debut novel." —Philip Caputo, New York Times Book Review
Now an HBO Limited Series from Executive Producers Park Chan-wook and Robert Downey Jr., 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. The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. 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 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.
The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity and America, a gripping espionage novel, and a powerful story of love and friendship.
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