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內容簡介 【比爾蓋茲推薦書單：歷年推薦】2016年卡內基獎得主優秀小說。2015-2016亞洲 太平洋美國獎文學類獲獎作品。入圍2016年埃德加獎最佳文學作品。入圍2015年洛杉磯時報圖書獎。入圍2015年紐約時報TOP100。共同獲得紐約時報書評，華爾街日報，華盛頓郵報，西雅圖時報，堪薩斯城星，奧蘭多每週，每日野獸，圖書館期刊，柯克斯評論，出版家周刊，書目，衛報，國家郵報等媒體年度最佳圖書。在英文世界戰爭文學中，越戰文學是空白的，南加大教授Viet Thanh Nguyen第一本文學作品，以 1975 年越戰為背景，寫下越盟和越共之間的間諜故事，「我是一個間諜，一個沉睡者，一個幽靈，一個雙面人。」埋伏在南越軍隊的越共間諜，趁西貢混亂，與戰友逃赴美國，卻依然利用密報與越共聯繫。雙面人的一生，注定佈滿人性的焦灼，這名主角儘管不願透露姓名，卻已深入人心，成為史上令人難忘角色之一，作者刻劃矛盾性格的技能得以媲美康拉德、格雷和勒卡雷……是一部關於忠誠、愛情和信仰的作品。紀錄越戰歷史記憶，文筆和題材都獲得媒體讚譽。WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. 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. 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. 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. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today."
