Viet Thanh Nguyen certainly knows how to debut well. His first novel, "The Sympathizer," snapped up a host of literary awards in 2016, including the Pulitzer Prize. It was nominally a thriller, but ...

Few novels have catapulted their way into the American literary canon as quickly as Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, “The Sympathizer.” Its place there seems as assured as Ralph ...

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel “The Sympathizer” introduced readers to its unnamed protagonist, a half-Vietnamese, half-French communist double agent navigating life, love, loyalty and espionage in ...

In numerous little ways, Viet Thanh Nguyen sparks familiarity through his fiction, sending little tendrils that feel familiar out to readers. All the while he tells a story about life and death, ...

Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his new novel, “The Committed,” the follow-up to his Pulitzer-winning “The Sympathizer,” and the second entry in a planned trilogy. It brings Nguyen’s storytelling further ...

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At the end of “The Sympathizer,” Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 debut novel, the nameless narrator vows to survive. This so-called sympathizer, a Vietnamese communist spy, has come to the end of his ...

Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” introduced us to the “man of two faces and two minds,” a double agent living in ...

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The Quarantine Report. I’m Amy Goodman, as we spend the hour with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen. His ...

Viet Thanh Nguyen certainly knows how to debut well. His first novel, "The Sympathizer," snapped up a host of literary awards in 2016, including the Pulitzer Prize. It was nominally a thriller, but ...