**Soon to be an HBO Original Series
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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
"[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.