The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

• Winner of the Pulitzer Prize - Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

<p><b>Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction <br>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>“[A] remarkable debut novel”<b>―Philip Caputo, <em>New York Times Book Review</em> (cover review)</b> <p></p> <p>The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as seven other awards, <em>The Sympathizer</em> 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, <em>The Sympathizer</em> 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. <em>The Sympathizer</em> is a blistering exploration of identity and America, a gripping espionage novel, and a powerful story of love and friendship.</p>