Summary of The Sympathizer: by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Summary of The Sympathizer: by Viet Thanh Nguyen | Includes Chapter Synopses and Analysis
Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (and six other awards) with this 2016 book, The Sympathizer. It is a harrowing and masterful tale of identity, culture, and the balance between good and evil. Nguyen's book combines both the pace and suspense of a suspense-thriller with a literary prowess reserved for the greats. This FastReads summary includes full chapter synopses, key themes, and editorial analysis from Viet Thanh Nguyen's award-wining novel, The Sympathizer.

What will you gain from reading this book?
Understand key themes and motifs of the original book

A better understanding of the struggles that mixed cultured children go through to fully form their own cultural identity

The painful dichotomy of aligning yourself to different, conflicting virtues at once

A Southeast Asian perspective on the Vietnam War

An understanding of methods of torture for war criminals and their effectiveness

A better perspective of how Hollywood movies differently depict the winners and losers of history

A deeper look into the brutalities of modern war and the ways that different ideologies can dramatically impact lives for generations

Book Summary Overview
The narrator, a 'man with two minds' is a half-French, half-Vietnamese bastard child who feels out of place in both cultures, and fittingly works as a communist double agent during the Vietnam War. His world upends after the Fall of Saigon sends him to live in America with other war refugees, though he continues reporting back to his Communist leaders still in Vietnam. Split between these two worlds, the narrator finds himself confronted with atrocities and forced to combat the darkest, most repressed memories in his own psyche in order to find the healing process for cleaving himself back together.

In an style of writing both explosive and deep, author Viet Thanh Ngyen brings the harsh reality of the Vietnam War to an international audience, putting a distinctively Southeast Asian lens on a conflict that is often only understood from the perspective of the Western aggressors.

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Country	USA
Author	FastReads
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	FastReads
Manufacturer	FastReads
NumberOfPages	24
PublicationDate	2017-03-31
Publisher	FastReads
ReleaseDate	2017-03-31
Studio	FastReads

Summary of The Sympathizer: by Viet Thanh Nguyen | Includes Chapter Synopses and Analysis

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