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Highlights
Quality
Most impressed with the ability to present a 360 perspective and the conclusion is written superbly
Viet thanh nguyen does an incredible job with the sympathizer
This is an important book with the ideas expressed in bold writing
It follows his life beginning with the fall of saigon forcing him to move to america
Competitiveness
The sympathizer won the pulitzer prize for fiction in 2016
Perfect for any reader interested in spy novels thrillers and the politics of history and the contemporary world
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vietnamese, novel, american, many and south. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 3,521 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 2 2021.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The book ends on an uncertain note and in the remarks the author admits the work is open to a sequel
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Read the book while in vietnam and after watching ken burns vietnam war series
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Viet thanh nguyen the author “the sympathizer” was born in north vietnam
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According to an interview on npr his town fostered a mix of hardcore revolutionaries ho chi minh was born 30 minutes away and devote catholics
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His parents were catholics and apparently colonizing priests convinced his family and many others to go to south vietnam to avoid being brutally murdered
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He doesn’t seem to fit in anywhere
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When nguyen tells the story of his life in the us on npr he urges listeners to resist buying into the “american dream” saying his experience is not comparable to that of many other vietnamese people and he is only here because of usbacked violence
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