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2015

Format:	Book
Author:	Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- author.
Title:	The sympathizer / Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Edition:	First edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Grove Press, [2015] [Berkeley, CA] : Publishers Group West ©2015
Description:	371 pages ; 24 cm
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.
Subjects:	Soldiers -- Vietnam (Republic) -- Fiction. Communists -- Vietnam (Republic) -- Fiction. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction.
Genre:	Historical fiction. Spy fiction.
Notes:	Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Winner, 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author, Mystery Writers of America, 2016
Contents:	The story of a South Vietnamese captain -- a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America -- who returns to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause.
Web Site:	Sample text Contributor biographical information Publisher description
LCCN:	2015375327
ISBN:	0802123457 9780802123459 9781472151377 1472151372 9780802124944 0802124941
Other Number:	890615165
System Availability:	12
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	588633
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Call Number:	FICTION Nguyen

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