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发表于2024-11-07
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A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties.
It 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.
Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the novel The Sympathizer (Grove Press, 2015). He also authored Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002) and co-edited Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (University of Hawaii Press, 2014). An associate professor at the University of Southern California, he teaches in the departments of English and American Studies and Ethnicity.
He has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (2011-2012), the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2008-2009) and the Fine Arts Work Center (2004-2005). He has also received residencies, fellowships, and grants from the Luce Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, the James Irvine Foundation, the Huntington Library, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Creative Capital and the Warhol Foundation.
His short fiction has been published in Manoa, Best New American Voices 2007, A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross-Cultural Collision and Connection, Narrative Magazine, TriQuarterly, the Chicago Tribune, and Gulf Coast, where his story won the 2007 Fiction Prize.
His writing has been translated into Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Spanish, and he has given invited lectures in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Germany. He is finishing an academic book titled War, Memory, Identity.
I would rate the book 3.5 stars out of 5. Nguyen is truly a master of language. His elaborate wording renders the book nothing short of a joy to read. However, I am a bit disappointed in how the plot unravels in the final few chapters where Nguyen seems to be rather carried away.
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评分The interfusion of violence, humor and sexuality casts a strangely vibrant light on the concept of living and patriotism.
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评分这不是一本悬疑谍战小说,作者更想在民族主义,种族,文化,忠诚背景下探讨“身份”问题,即战后越南难民在美国的生活“one foot in Amerian ,one foot in Vietnam“。改变了许多同类型的小说将战争问题和移民问题割裂开来的现象。
谈起越南战争,美国人似乎是很纠结的。这场二战后美国唯一打输了的对外战争,曾令这个超级大国颜面扫地,民心、军队士气、国家影响力一度跌落低谷,也由此催生了一批痛定思痛、反思越战的文艺作品,影响深远者有好莱坞拍摄的经典电影《现代启示录》、《猎鹿人》等可资为证。然...
评分 评分这不是一本容易读的书,作者连篇累牍用了很多长长的句子,而且思绪奔放,穿插跳跃,从一件事突然转到其他事情上。 假如不是因为先在美国公共电台听过作者的采访,我怀疑自己能够耐心看完(实际上我听完整本书,相比阅读,听着稍微容易些)。 回到本书内容,作者的切入点很有趣...
The Sympathizer pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024