The Sympathizer (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

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NGUYEN, Viet Thanh. The Sympathizer. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2016. Octavo. Full red leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 371 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: Grove Press, 2015. Viet Thanh Nguyen (b. 1971) was born in Ban Mê Thuột, Vietnam, and came to the United States as a refugee in 1975, the year the novel begins. He grew up in San Jose, California, studied at Berkeley, and is now a professor of English and American Studies at the University of Southern California. The Sympathizer was his debut novel. It won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — among seven other prizes, including the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize — and was named to more than twenty "best of year" lists. It is the first novel by a Vietnamese-American author to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The narrator introduces himself in the novel's opening sentence as "a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces." He is a captain in the South Vietnamese army who is simultaneously a communist agent, reporting on the general and his inner circle to a handler in the North. When Saigon falls in April 1975, he follows the general and his entourage

• Binding: Hardcover

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