ISBN: 080219169X 9780802191694

Category: Fiction / Literary

Page count: 384

<p><b>Now an HBO Limited Series from Executive Producers Park Chan-wook and Robert Downey Jr., Streaming Exclusively on Max</b></p><p><b>Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction</b><br><b>Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel <br>Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction</b></p><p></p><p><b>One of the <i>New York Times</i>’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century</b><br><b>One of <i>TIME</i>’s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time</b></p><p><b>“[A] remarkable debut novel.”—Philip Caputo, <i>New York Times Book Review</i> (cover review)</b></p><p><b>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.</b></p><p>The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as seven other awards, <i>The Sympathizer</i> 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, <i>The Sympathizer</i> 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.</p><p><i>The Sympathizer</i> is a blistering exploration of identity and America, a gripping espionage novel, and a powerful story of love and friendship.</p>