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. 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.
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. It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. 'A fierce novel written in a refreshingly high style and charged with intelligent rage' Financial Times WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION 2016 WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL 2016 *** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 ***
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