The Sympathizer

The Sympathizer won a variety of literary prizes after its publication in early 2016, and it has been compared favorably to Graham Greene's The Quiet American and Saul Bellow's Herzog. The novel follows a half-Vietnamese, half-French army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon; while he lives in Los Angeles with other Vietnamese refugees, he secretly reports back to his communist superiors in Vietnam. The Sympathizer is a bold exploration of identity and Americanness.