New Releases by Viet Thanh Nguyen

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestseller Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer. The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respected—and most popular—of its kind. Viet Thanh Nguyen—Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Sympathizer—selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published this year.

Ogni anno da cent’anni, la Harvard University, l’ateneo più prestigioso del mondo, dà la parola a una figura che si sia distinta nella letteratura, nella musica o nelle arti visive, per un ciclo di sei conferenze sull’influenza delle attività creative umane nella vita pubblica. Eliot, Frost, Stravinskij, Borges, Paz, Calvino, Eco, Gordimer, Morrison, e poi ancora Cage, Wenders, Pahmuk: sono alcuni tra i nomi che hanno riempito questo secolo di “Lezioni americane”. Nel tempo di disumanità che ci tocca vivere, nessuno meglio di Viet Thanh Nguyen poteva raccogliere il testimone. Nato in un paese devastato dalla guerra, da quando è stato in grado di farlo si è occupato ogni giorno della sua vita delle storie di conflitti, di migrazioni, di memoria, quelle raccontate e quelle taciute. Nessuno meglio di lui poteva dire della responsabilità dello scrittore in un’epoca di violenze e autocrazie, in cui regimi e Stati esercitano il controllo sul linguaggio attraverso la sua sopraffazione, in cui il senso del celebre «la bellezza è verità, la verità bellezza» di Keats si è perduto. Tuttavia, da par suo, l’autore de Il simpatizzante gioca con la letteratura e si diverte con la filosofia; parla di Melville, Said, Shakespeare, Agamben e Derrida, ma anche di Palestina, Vietnam, America; scuote le nostre coscienze, ci fa piangere e poi ridere. Lui, l’outsider per definizione, l’autore “minore” perché asiatico americano, che chiama con forza alla solidarietà verso le vittime di ogni disumanità, le vittime di razzismo, di colonialismo, di guerra. Lui, lo scrittore che non arretra davanti alla responsabilità di chi scrive come atto supremo di alterità, ma al contrario affronta l’onere a testa alta, consapevole che la scrittura può salvare, la scrittura può distruggere. Lavorare alla scrittura è l’occasione di creare bellezza dall’orrore e dalla tragedia: una bellezza che si trova sia nell’arte sia nella solidarietà. «Sei lezioni emozionanti danno corpo al pensiero di Viet Thanh Nguyen sul ruolo dell’artista nel discorso politico e sul modo in cui la politica si fa largo nell’arte». Vanity Fair «Uno degli autori più coraggiosi della letteratura americana di oggi esplora il ruolo dello scrittore outsider». Literary Hub «In pagine commoventi, Nguyen ragiona sul significato di essere “minoranza”, con una prospettiva di volta in volta letteraria, storica, politica e famigliare». USA Today «Come sempre Viet Thanh Nguyen intreccia in modo fluido riflessioni personali, analisi letteraria, pensiero politico». Publishers Weekly

"Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen''s To Save and to Destroy is a deeply personal reflection on outsiders in literature and in US society. Across six essays, first delivered as the Norton Lectures, Nguyen offers insightful readings of authors who shaped his craft, culminating in a poignant and vigorous call for a solidarity of the devastated"--

Do autor de O Simpatizante, eis um livro de memórias profundamente político, uma história de guerra profundamente pessoal. Livro selecionado para o National Book Award e o Baillie Gifford Prize de não-ficção Com a queda de Saigão e a vitória vietcongue, Nguyen, apenas com quatro anos, e a sua família são forçados a fugir de barco da sua cidade natal e entrar nos Estados Unidos da América como refugiados. Após um período de separação, também forçada, a família instala-se nos subúrbios de San José, na Califórnia, e luta pelo desejado sonho americano. Contudo, a par do manifesto fosso cultural que a língua inglesa acabará por colmatar, a violência e o racismo espreitam sem cessar pela fachada acolhedora, democrática e igualitária da AMERICATM. Numa véspera de Natal, quando Nguyen tem nove anos e se encontra entretido a ver desenhos animados em casa, fica a saber que os pais foram baleados enquanto trabalhavam na mercearia de que eram proprietários. Mais tarde, já adolescente, filmes sobre a Guerra do Vietname, como Apocalypse Now, reabrem velhas feridas: como pode ele ser simultaneamente americano e vietnamita, o colonizador e o colonizado, o assassino e o assassinado? Com lirismo, humor e uma sinceridade desarmante, Viet Thanh Nguyen, vencedor do Prémio Pulitzer com O Simpatizante , revê o extraordinário filme da sua vida em Um Homem de Duas Caras - uma história de guerra composta por autobiografia, biografias e tragédias familiares, por reflexões acutilantes sobre política, literatura e cultura, em prosa, verso e fotografia - para ir até onde dói, até ao osso, e procurar juntar os fragmentos da memória e da identidade, os seus dois «eus», o eu e o tu. Os elogios da crítica: «Um olhar espirituoso e esmagador sobre o que significa ser refugiado, imigrante e americano num mundo que não nos vê como nós nos vemos.» Time Magazine «Um livro de memórias caleidoscópico. Profundamente pessoal e intensamente político.» Kirkus Reviews

Questa è una storia di guerra, dichiara subito l’autore di queste pagine, che contengono il racconto di alcune vite: la sua e quella della sua famiglia. Non solo autobiografia; non solo memoir; non solo acuminato ritratto del Grande Paese che li ha accolti nel 1975, in fuga dal Vietnam. Loro, che non sono esuli, espatriati, migranti né immigrati, ma rifugiati. Del resto, è con l’arrivo in America, dove lo separano da papà mamma fratello anche se ha soltanto quattro anni, che comincia la memoria di Viet Thanh Nguyen, e allora sappiamo che leggeremo una storia di dolore, perché ciò che non smette di far male rimane per sempre fissato. Tuttavia è molto più anche di questo, dal momento che, come scrive l’autore del Simpatizzante con la sua affilata autoironia, lui ha abbastanza cicatrici da essere un bravo scrittore ma non tante da essere totalmente fottuto. Ed è il bravo scrittore a ripercorrere l’infanzia riunito alla famiglia e poi l’adolescenza a San José, California, facile come non è mai stata per i suoi, reduci di una guerra infinita, consumati dal lavoro. La biografia procede aprendo di continuo squarci lirici, storie più grandi, storie politiche, di diaspora, di colonizzazione, di razzismo, ma anche di ordinaria violenza, come quella della sparatoria che vede coinvolti i suoi genitori. Non mancano poi Hollywood e le sue pellicole iconiche, che suscitano nel giovane Viet l’angosciosa domanda esistenziale: posso essere americano e vietnamita? Colui che uccide e colui che viene ucciso? Diventato scrittore e accademico di successo, l’uomo con due facce tornerà in visita nella sua terra, dove toccherà tutto ciò che i suoi genitori hanno dovuto abbandonare, dimenticare per poi ricordare. E riconoscerà che è tempo di chiudere il cerchio, di prendersi cura di chi ci ha amato. Il nome cattolico di Ba è Joseph. Quello di mia madre, Maria. Come molti altri migranti e rifugiati prima di loro, diventano dei sacrifici umani, si gettano sul filo spinato perché io possa entrare in questo strano mondo nuovo camminando sulle loro schiene. Lavorano senza posa, quasi tutte le ore di veglia, quasi ogni giorno dell’anno eccetto Pasqua, Tê ́t e Natale. Ogni giorno la loro stazione di viacrucis. «L’autore ha una capacità prodigiosa di distillare i ricordi, o la loro assenza, in parole che non si dimenticano». The New York Times «Viet Thanh Nguyen, uno dei più importanti scrittori di oggi, ricostruisce nel suo memoir come si impara a essere uomo, dopo essere stato figlio e poi padre». The Los Angeles Times «Io sono l’uomo con due facce buca la nebbia dell’amnesia americana». Cathy Park Hong

A Kirkus Best Picture Book of the Year 2024 A Kirkus Best Picture-Book Conversation Starter of 2024 A School Library Journal Best Picture Book 2024 From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and illustrator Minnie Phan comes an unforgettable story of a Vietnamese American girl whose life is transformed by a wildfire. ★ School Library Journal, starred review ★ Kirkus Reviews, starred review When Simone is awakened by her mom as a wildfire threatens their home, it is the beginning of a life-changing journey. On their way to take shelter in a high school gym, the family passes firefighters from a prison unit battling the fire. Simone’s mom tells her that when she was a girl in Viet Nam, she was forced to evacuate her home after a flood. Joined by other children sheltering in the gym, Simone, a budding artist, encourages everyone to draw as a way to process their situation. After a few days, Simone and her mom are able to return to their home, which is fortunately still standing, and her outlook has changed. As Simone begins creating a piece of art with one of her new friends, she realizes that even though they are young, they can dream and work together for a more sustainable future. With a poetic, haunting family story by esteemed author Viet Thanh Nguyen and gorgeous art from illustrator Minnie Phan, this powerful tale introduces an unforgettable young heroine who awakens to a new role fighting for her community and for the future of the planet.

Viet Thanh Nguyen is vier jaar oud als hij en zijn familie gedwongen worden om Vietnam te verlaten. Als vluchtelingen komen ze aan in de Verenigde Staten, waar de kleine Viet direct bij zijn ouders wordt weggehaald en bij een Amerikaanse familie wordt ondergebracht. Later is het gezin weer herenigd en vestigt zich in San José. Achter de zonnige façade van wat Nguyen AMERIKATM noemt, gaat geweld schuil. Op kerstavond, als de negenjarige Viet thuis tekenfilms kijkt, hoort hij dat zijn ouders zijn neergeschoten terwijl ze aan het werk waren in hun kruidenierswinkel. Jaren later ziet de tiener Nguyen films over de Vietnamoorlog, zoals Apocalyps Now, en het bloedstollende drama brengt hem in een existentiële crisis: hoe kan hij zowel Amerikaan als Vietnamees zijn, zowel de moordenaar als de persoon die gedood wordt? 'De man met twee gezichten biedt een humoristische maar ook sarcastische blik op wat het inhoudt om vluchteling, immigrant en Amerikaan te zijn in een omgeving die jou niet ziet zoals jij jezelf ziet.' – Time Magazine 'De man met twee gezichten zal voor veel witte (Amerikaanse) lezers een onthutsende leeservaring zijn.'- De Groene Amsterdammer

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son. At the age of four, Nguyen and his family are forced to flee his hometown of Ban Mê Thuột and come to the USA as refugees. After being removed from his brother and parents and homed with a family on his own, Nguyen is later allowed to resettle into his own family in suburban San José. But there is violence hidden behind the sunny façade of what he calls AMERICATM. One Christmas Eve, when Nguyen is nine, while watching cartoons at home, he learns that his parents have been shot while working at their grocery store, the SàiGòn Mới, a place where he sometimes helps price tins of fruit with a sticker gun. Years later, as a teenager, the blood-stirring drama of the films of the Vietnam War such as Apocalypse Now throw Nguyen into an existential crisis: how can he be both American and Vietnamese, both the killer and the person being killed? When he learns about an adopted sister who has stayed back in Vietnam, and ultimately visits her, he grows to understand just how much his parents have left behind. And as his parents age, he worries increasingly about their comfort and care, and realizes that some of their older wounds are reopening. Profound in its emotions and brilliant in its thinking about cultural power, A Man of Two Faces explores the necessity of both forgetting and of memory, the promises America so readily makes and breaks, and the exceptional life story of one of the most original and important writers working today.

Traditional Chinese edition of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War

Entre el thriller literari i la novel·la d'idees. Del guanyador del premi Pulitzer amb El simpatitzant. «La seva habilitat pot comparar-se amb la de mestres com Conrad, Greene i Le Carré. Thriller i sàtira social alhora». The New York Times Book Review. L'antic agent doble vietnamita —«l'home de les dues ments»— que ara s'amaga sota el nom de Vo Danh arriba amb el seu germà de sang Bon a París a començaments dels vuitanta, després d'un període terrible en un camp de reeducació comunista. Tots dos intentaran superar el seu passat i alhora assegurar-se el futur, abraçant el capitalisme en una de les seves formes més pures: el tràfic de drogues. Però la seva nova vida comporta riscos que no pot preveure, com ara la tortura autoinfligida de l'addicció o l'autoritarisme d'un país ancorat en una mentalitat colonialista. I tot i que la seva vida ja no corre perill com abans, continua fustigant-se pel seu passat i intentant resoldre un problema aparentment irresoluble: com reunir els seus dos amics d'infància, Bon i Man, dos homes amb visions del món i ideals totalment antagònics. Guanyador del Premi Pulitzer de ficció el 2016 amb El simpatitzant, del qual s'ha venut més d'un milió d'exemplars a tot el món, pocs escriptors nord-americans contemporanis tenen un reconeixement de crítica i públic com Viet Thanh Nguyen. Amb aquesta esperada continuació, ha escrit un thriller polític que vessa humor i violència i alhora una brillant novel·la d'idees sobre el racisme, el colonialisme i la hipocresia. «Una obra mestra», Marlon James. «Nguyen en la seva forma més valenta i ambiciosa. Una novel·la ferotge, intel·ligent, portentosa i profundament documentada», Ocean Vuong. «Un dels nostres grans cronistes de la immigració», Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker.

De Frans-Vietnamese hoofdpersoon arriveert in 1981 na verblijf in een Vietnamees heropvoedingskamp en een Indonesisch vluchtelingencentrum als asielzoeker in Parijs. Hij vindt onderdak bij een 'tante' en begint een nieuw bestaan als drugshandelaar.

The long-awaited follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide, The Committed follows the man of two minds as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. Traumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, Man, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals whom he meets at dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese “aunt,” he finds stimulation for his mind but also customers for his narcotic merchandise. But the new life he is making has perils he has not foreseen, whether the self-torture of addiction, the authoritarianism of a state locked in a colonial mindset, or the seeming paradox of how to reunite his two closest friends whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition. The Sympathizer will need all his wits, resourcefulness, and moral flexibility if he is to prevail. Both highly suspenseful and existential, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen’s position in the firmament of American letters.

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

A band of intrepid chickens leave behind the boredom of farm life, joining the crew of the pirate ship Pitiless to seek fortune and glory on the high seas. Led by a grizzled captain into the territory of the Dog Knights, they soon learn what it means to be courageous, merciful, and not seasick quite so much of the time. A whimsical and unexpected adventure tale, Chicken of the Sea originated in the five-year-old mind of Ellison Nguyen, son of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen; father and son committed the story to the page, then enlisted the artistic talents of Caldecott Honor winner Thi Bui and her thirteen-year-old son, Hien Bui-Stafford, to illustrate it. This unique collaboration between two generations of artists and storytellers invites you aboard for adventure, even if you''re chicken. Maybe especially if you''re chicken.

Auteur du retentissant Sympathisant, Viet Thanh Nguyen livre un recueil de nouvelles d''une justesse, d''une acuité et d''une élégance peu communes, et offre sa voix à tous les déracinés. Dans un pays où tout était affaire de possessions, nous ne possédions rien d''autre que nos histoires. Vietnamiens, ils ont fui le communisme à la fin des années 1970 pour s''exiler de l''autre côté du Pacifique, en Californie. Ils vivent entre deux rives, entre pays d''adoption et pays de naissance, pas encore Américains, plus tout à fait Vietnamiens. Certains sont figés dans le passé, hantés par les fantômes, effarés par l''hédonisme occidental ; d''autres veulent aller de l''avant, pour eux, pour les enfants, pour la possibilité d''une autre vie. Pour n''être plus simplement des réfugiés.

Traditional Chinese edition of The Refugees

In De vluchtelingen geeft Viet Thanh Nguyen een stem aan alle mensen die zich tussen twee werelden bevinden, tussen het geadopteerde vaderland en het geboorteland. Nguyen vertelt ons onder meer over een jonge Vietnamese vluchteling die een ernstige cultuurschok oploopt als hij met twee homoseksuele mannen in San Francisco gaat wonen, over een vrouw wier man aan dementie lijdt en haar begint te verwarren met een vroegere geliefde, en over een meisje in Ho Chi Minh Stad van wie het oudere halfzusje terugkomt uit Amerika en schijnbaar alles heeft bereikt wat zij nooit zal doen.

Tutte le guerre sono combattute due volte, la prima volta sul campo di battaglia, la seconda nella memoria. In Niente muore mai, Viet Thanh Nguyen torna a parlare dell’argomento che più gli sta a cuore: il Vietnam e la memoria della guerra. Dall’autore del romanzo vincitore del premio Pulitzer 2016, Il simpatizzante, un’acuta esplorazione del conflitto che gli americani chiamano Guerra del Vietnam e i vietnamiti chiamano Guerra Americana, un sanguinoso confronto militare che ha segnato la storia della seconda metà del Novecento e vive indelebilmente nella memoria collettiva di entrambe le nazioni.

Vietnam asıllı Amerikalı yazar Nguyen’den edebiyat dünyasında büyük yankı uyandıran, hakları otuza yakın ülkeye satılan ve yirmiden fazla yılın kitabı seçkisinde yer alan sarsıcı bir ilk roman. Pek çok prestijli ödüle layık görülen Sempatizan, bir gerilim romanının heyecanı ve Saul Bellow’la karşılaştırılan tarzıyla insanın ayaklarını yerden kesen bir dostluk ve ihanet destanı. Çift taraflı çalışan komünist bir ajan, kendi deyimiyle “çifte akıllı” bir adam olan hikâyenin anlatıcısı, Saygon’un düşüşünden sonra Amerika’ya gelerek Los Angeles’taki diğer sürgün Vietnamlılarla birlikte yeni bir yaşam kurmaya çalışırken, bir yandan da Vietnam’daki komünist üstlerine gizlice raporlar gönderen Yarı Fransız yarı Vietnamlı bir istihbarat subayıdır. Sempatizan, hem kimlik ve göçmenlik üzerine çok yoğun bir keşif yolculuğu, hem insanı esir alan bir casusluk romanı, hem de güçlü bir aşk ve dostluk hikâyesi. 2016 Edgar En İyi İlk Roman Ödülü 2016 PEN/Faulkner Ödülü Finalisti 2016 Dayton Edebiyat Barış Ödülü 2015 Kurmaca Merkezi İlk Roman Ödülü 2015-2016 Asya/Pasifik Amerikası Edebiyat Ödülü 2016 California İlk Kurmaca Kitap Ödülü 2017 Asya Amerika Çalışmaları Birliği Yaratıcı Yazıda En İyi Kitap Ödülü MacArthur ve Guggenheim Fellowship Ödülleri New York Times Çok Satanı

Im Jahr 1975 werden Offiziere aus Süd-Vietnam in die USA ausgeflogen. Unter ihnen befindet sich auch ein kommunistischer Spion, der die Gruppe weiterhin überwachen soll. Dieser hadert jedoch bald mit seinem Doppelleben und gerät in einen Identitätskonflikt.

Una novel·la d''espies trepidant guanyadora del Premi Pulitzer 2016. Comparada per la crítica a les novel·les de Graham Greene, Denis Johnson i George Orwell, El simpatitzant és una novel·la d''espies apassionant que explora la identitat i els Estats Units, i una poderosa història d''amor i amistat. El narrador és un agent doble dividit entre les seves lleialtats. Meitat francès i meitat vietnamita, un "home de dues ments", és un capità de l''exèrcit que aconsegueix fugir als EUA després de la caiguda de Saigon, però mentre intenta construir una nova vida amb altres refugiats vietnamites a L.A., secretament segueix informant els seus superiors comunistes al Vietnam. El simpatitzant examina el llegat de la guerra del Vietnam en la literatura, el cinema i les guerres actuals. Amb la col.laboració de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Cultura.

"Beautiful and heartrending" fiction set in Vietnam and America from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer (Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker) In these powerful stories, written over a period of twenty years and set in both Vietnam and America, Viet Thanh Nguyen paints a vivid portrait of the experiences of people leading lives between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. This incisive collection by the National Book Award finalist and celebrated author of The Committed gives voice to the hopes and expectations of people making life-changing decisions to leave one country for another, and the rifts in identity, loyalties, romantic relationships, and family that accompany relocation. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her with a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of migration. "Terrific." — Chicago Tribune "An important and incisive book." — The Washington Post "An urgent, wonderful collection." —NPR

Politický thriller oceněný Pulitzerovou cenou 2016. Jsem špión. Člověk dvou tváří. Proto asi nikoho nepřekvapí, že i mysl mám dvojitou. V románu Sympatizant sledujeme osudy dvojitého agenta sloužícího rozvědce socialistického vietnamského státu i tajné službě jihovietnamského režimu, s jejímiž exponenty se po pádu Saigonu vydá do amerického exilu. Kniha citlivě vnímá nejen politické intriky na vysoké úrovni, ale i jejich dopad na lidské osudy, ať už jde o celý národ nebo jednotlivce vtažené bez své vůle do víru událostí. Snaží se zachovávat objektivní pohled bez předpojatosti vůči jedné či druhé straně, tento pohled však ani náhodou není nezúčastněný.

Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, National Book Award in Nonfiction A New York Times Book Review “The Year in Reading” Selection All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War—a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both nations. “[A] gorgeous, multifaceted examination of the war Americans call the Vietnam War—and which Vietnamese call the American War...As a writer, [Nguyen] brings every conceivable gift—wisdom, wit, compassion, curiosity—to the impossible yet crucial work of arriving at what he calls ‘a just memory’ of this war.” —Kate Tuttle, Los Angeles Times “In Nothing Ever Dies, his unusually thoughtful consideration of war, self-deception and forgiveness, Viet Thanh Nguyen penetrates deeply into memories of the Vietnamese war...[An] important book, which hits hard at self-serving myths.” —Jonathan Mirsky, Literary Review “Ultimately, Nguyen’s lucid, arresting, and richly sourced inquiry, in the mode of Susan Sontag and W. G. Sebald, is a call for true and just stories of war and its perpetual legacy.” —Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)

Now an HBO Limited Series from Executive Producers Park Chan-wook and Robert Downey Jr., Streaming Exclusively on Max Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of TIME’s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time “[A] remarkable debut novel.”—Philip Caputo, New York Times Book Review (cover review) Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize, a startling debut novel from a powerful new voice featuring one of the most remarkable narrators of recent fiction: a conflicted subversive and idealist working as a double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as seven other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a “man of two minds,” a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam. The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity and America, a gripping espionage novel, and a powerful story of love and friendship.

In Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals have idealized Asian America, ignoring its saturation with capitalist practices. This idealization of Asian America means that Asian American intellectuals can neither grapple with their culture''s ideological diversity nor recognize their own involvement with capitalist practices such as the selling of racial identity. Making his case through the example of literature, which remains a critical arena of cultural production for Asian Americans, Nguyen demonstrates that literature embodies the complexities, conflicts, and potential future options of Asian American culture.