![]() ![]() Most of the book is about the narrator and the other immigrants struggling to adjust to life in America and planning out how they’re going to take back the country, while the narrator continues spying and even has to turn on friends he’s made in the community. So then why is he in a North Vietnam prison? In fact, he served as a spy in the South Vietnamese army, and after Saigon falls to the North and the South Vietnamese have to take home in America, the narrator details how he continued to spy for North Vietnam in this growing Vietnamese community in Los Angeles. The novel is framed as the confession of an unnamed spy in a North Vietnamese prison, but here’s the kick: the narrator worked for North Vietnam. It’s thriller, spy, action, romance, war and a hint of Orwell all in one. “The Sympathizer” by Viet Thanh Nguyen is just fantastic fiction and easily one of my favorite books of all time. ![]()
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