Reviews
Praise for The Sympathizer: 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 Winner of the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2015-2016 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (Adult Fiction) Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Finalist for the 2016 Medici Book Club Prize Finalist for the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Mystery/Thriller) Finalist for the 2016 ABA Indies Choice/E.B. White Read-Aloud Award (Book of the Year, Adult Fiction) Finalist for the 2016 California Book Award for First Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year on more than twenty lists, including the New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post "A magnificent feat of storytelling. The Sympathizer is a novel of literary, historical, and political importance."-- Maxine Hong Kingston "Extraordinary . . . Surely a new classic of war fiction."-- Ron Charles, Washington Post "A dark, funny--and Vietnamese--look at the Vietnam War . . . rife with insight and criticism."-- NPR "All Things Considered" "So skillfully and brilliantly executed that I cannot believe this is a first novel."-- John Warner, Chicago Tribune "Welcome a unique new voice to the literary chorus . . . dazzles on all fronts."-- Tricia Springstubb, Cleveland Plain Dealer "Intelligent, relentlessly paced and savagely funny."-- Wall Street Journal "A very special, important, brilliant novel . . . I don't say brilliant about a lot of books, but this is a brilliant book . . . A fabulous book . . . that everyone should read."-- Nancy Pearl "Tremendously funny . . . reminded me of how big books can be."-- Akhil Sharma, Guardian "[A] marvelously worldly debut novel, redolent of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh."-- Laura Miller, Slate "Nguyen does nothing less than turn the familiar Western narratives of the Vietnam War on their heads . . . that rare novel that will make you see the world just a bit differently."-- James Grainger, Toronto Star, Praise for The Sympathizer 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 Winner of the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2015-2016 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (Adult Fiction) Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Finalist for the 2016 Medici Book Club Prize Finalist for the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Mystery/Thriller) Finalist for the 2016 ABA Indies Choice/E.B. White Read-Aloud Award (Book of the Year, Adult Fiction) Finalist for the 2016 California Book Award for First Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year on more than twenty lists, including the New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post "A magnificent feat of storytelling. The Sympathizer is a novel of literary, historical, and political importance."--Maxine Hong Kingston "Extraordinary . . . Surely a new classic of war fiction."--Ron Charles, Washington Post "A dark, funny--and Vietnamese--look at the Vietnam War . . . rife with insight and criticism."--NPR "All Things Considered" "So skillfully and brilliantly executed that I cannot believe this is a first novel."--John Warner, Chicago Tribune "Welcome a unique new voice to the literary chorus . . . dazzles on all fronts."--Tricia Springstubb, Cleveland Plain Dealer "Intelligent, relentlessly paced and savagely funny."--Wall Street Journal "A very special, important, brilliant novel . . . I don't say brilliant about a lot of books, but this is a brilliant book . . . A fabulous book . . . that everyone should read."--Nancy Pearl "Tremendously funny . . . reminded me of how big books can be."--Akhil Sharma, Guardian "[A] marvelously worldly debut novel, redolent of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh."--Laura Miller, Slate "Nguyen does nothing less than turn the familiar Western narratives of the Vietnam War on their heads . . . that rare novel that will make you see the world just a bit differently."--James Grainger, Toronto Star
