#  Viet Thanh Nguyen: Spy, Sympathizer, Son 

 





October 05, 2023

 

 

 “I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces,” Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” begins. The unnamed narrator is a biracial, American-educated communist informant in the employ of a South Vietnamese general in the waning days of war. His twin faces — North and South, East and West, communist and nationalist, white and not — grant him the titular sympathy that is both a blessing and a curse. A “man of two minds,” he commiserates with his foes as easily as he deceives his friends.

 Read more from *The New York Times* [here](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/books/viet-thanh-nguyen-man-of-two-faces.html).



 

 

 



 

 

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