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The sympathizer / Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Summary:

Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780802123459 (hardcover) :
  • Physical Description: 371 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Grove Press, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: Communists > Vietnam (Republic) > Fiction.
Soldiers > Vietnam (Republic) > Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Spy stories.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • Baker & Taylor
    Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life on 1975 Los Angeles.
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    Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.
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    Winner of the 2016Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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