Viet Thanh Nguyen

PREMIO PULITZER DE FICCIÓN 2016 Una brillante novela de espías, un thriller político que ofrece un punto de vista inédito de la guerra de Vietnam.Abril de 1975, Saigón está sumida en el caos. Desde su mansion, el general del ejercito de Vietnam del Sur bebe whisky norteamericano mientras los disparos suenan cada vez mas cerca y, con la ayuda de un capitan de su maxima confianza, prepara una lista con los nombres de aquellos que recibiran un billete para los ultimos aviones que salen del pais. El general y sus compatriotas en breve comenzaran una nueva vida en Los Angeles sin sospechar que uno de ellos, el capitan, observara en secreto e informara sobre las actividades del grupo a un superior del Viet Cong.En esta extraordinaria novela, Viet Thanh Nguyen nos introduce en la mente de este agente doble, un hombre cuyos nobles ideales le exigiran que traicione a su gente mas cercana. Una novela de espias que atrapa al lector, una audaz exploracion del extremismo politico y una conmovedora historia de amor.El simpatizanterecorre una vida entre dos mundos y analiza el legado de la guerra de Vietnam en la literatura y el cine, asi como las guerras que emprendemos en el presente.

Abril de 1975, Saigón está sumida en el caos. Desde su mansión, el general del ejército de Vietnam del Sur bebe whisky norteamericano mientras los disparos suenan cada vez más cerca y, con la ayuda de un capitan de su maxima confianza, prepara una lista con los nombres de aquellos que recibiran un billete para los ultimos aviones que salen del pais. El general y sus compatriotas en breve comenzaran una nueva vida en Los Angeles sin sospechar que uno de ellos, el capitan, observara en secreto e informara sobre las actividades del grupo a un superior del Viet Cong.

La esperada secuela de El simpatizante, premio Pulitzer de ficción. Un trepidante thriller político heredero del mejor John le Carré, pero con el humor y la violencia de Quentin Tarantino.  «Una

It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong. The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.

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In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and lawsuits that quickly overturned the order. But the refugee caps remained. In The Displaced, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a refugee, brings together a host of prominent refugee writers to explore and illuminate the refugee experience. Featuring original essays by a collection of writers from around the world, The Displaced is an indictment of closing our doors, and a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of refuge.

Après le retentissement international du Sympathisant, Viet Thanh Nguyen revient avec un essai remarquable et érudit sur la guerre, la mémoire et l'identité. Puisant dans sa propre histoire, cell

Viet Than Nguyen brosse le portrait tout en finesse de réfugiés dans un recueil de nouvelles époustouflantes de justesse.

Comparada per la crítica a les novel·les de Graham Greene, Denis Johnson i George Orwell, El simpatitzantáes una novel·la d?espies apassionant que explora la identitat i els Estats Units, i una poderosa historiaad?amor i amistat.El narrador es un agent doble dividit entre les seves lleialtats. Meitat frances i meitat vietnamita, una?home de dues ments?, es un capita de l?exercit que aconsegueix fugir als EUA despres de la caiguda deaSaigon, pero mentre intenta construir una nova vida amb altres refugiats vietnamites a L.A., secretamentasegueix informant els seus superiors comunistes al Vietnam.El simpatitzant examina el llegat de la guerra del Vietnam en la literatura, el cinema i les guerres actuals.

From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2016 'A powerful antidote to all the fearmongering and lies out there ...A rich exploration of human identity, family ties and love and loss, never has a short story collection been timelier' ***** Five stars, the Independent In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration. The second piece of fiction by a major new voice, The Refugees is a beautifully written and sharply observed book about the aspirations of those who leave one country for another, and the relationships and desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives. An Amazon Best Book of the Month (Literature and Fiction) 'Nguyen's eight heart-wrenching and hopeful stories ought to be required reading for every politician in this era of wall-building and xenophobia' the Guardian 'With anger but not despair, with reconciliation but not unrealistic hope, and with genuine humour that is not used to diminish anyone, Nguyen has breathed life into many unforgettable characters, and given us a timely book focusing, in the words of Willa Cather, on "the slow working out of fate in people of allied sentiment and allied blood"' the Guardian 'Beautiful and heartrending' Joyce Carol Oates in the New Yorker '[A] superb collection ...exquisite stories ...Nguyen crafts dazzlingly lucid prose' the Observer 'Poignant ...Nguyen writes most movingly ...The form of the short story seems to come to Nguyen effortlessly' Financial Times

«La seva habilitat pot comparar-se amb la de mestres com Conrad, Greene i Le Carré. Thriller i sàtira social alhora». The New York Times Book Review. L’antic agent doble vietnamita —«l’home de les d

In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration. The second piece of fiction by a major new voice, The Refugees is a beautifully written and sharply observed book about the aspirations of those who leave one country for another, and the relationships and desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives.

In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and lawsuits that quickly overturned the order. But the refugee caps remained.In The Displaced, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a refugee, brings together a host of prominent refugee writers to explore and illuminate the refugee experience. Featuring original essays by a collection of writers from around the world, The Displaced is an indictment of closing our doors, and a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of refuge.

A voice that shakes the walls of the old literary comfort zone' New Yorker'Goes toe to toe with the original then surpasses it. A masterwork' Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of a Brief History of Seven Killings'Fierce and unrelentingly good. Hilarious and subversive' Tommy Orange, New York Times bestselling author of There There------------------------------------It's the early 1980s and the Sympathizer arrives in Paris. As a refugee, he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their turbulent pasts by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, the Sympathizer is both charmed and disturbed by Paris. Falling in with left-wing intellectuals and politicians at dinner parties held by his French Vietnamese "aunt", he finds customers for his merchandise as well as stimulation for his mind. But this new life he's living has unforeseen dangers of oppression, addiction and the seemingly unresolvable paradox of reuniting his two closest friends, men whose world views stand them poles apart.The highly suspenseful sequel to The Sympathizer, both literary thriller and brilliant novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen's position in the firmament of American letters.

París, principio de los años ochenta. Tras escapar de Vietnam y de su paso como inmigrante por Estados Unidos, el protagonista sin nombre de esta historia llega a la capital francesa para intentar labrarse un futuro valiendose del capitalismo en una de sus formas mas puras: el trafico de drogas. Aunque su vida ya no corre peligro fisico, sigue torturandose por su pasado como agente doble y luchando por asimilar la cultura dominante occidental europea. A medida que se une a un grupo de intelectuales y politicos de izquierda, encuentra no solo un estimulo para pasar pagina, sino tambien clientes para su negocio. Con lo que no cuenta es con la presencia de otros peligros no previstos, desde la opresion del gobierno a la adiccion a las drogas, pasando por un problema aparentemente irresoluble: como puede reunir a sus dos amigos mas cercanos, Bon y Man, dos hombres cuyas visiones del mundo e ideales son completamente opuestos. La esperada secuela de El simpatizante, que le valio aViet Thanh Nguyen el premio Pulitzer de ficcion y el reconocimiento mundial de critica y publico, es a la vez un thriller politico repleto de humor y violencia y una inteligente novela de ideas con agudas reflexiones sobre el racismo, el colonialismo y la hipocresia.

Una novel·la d’espies trepidant guanyadora del Premi Pulitzer 2016.Comparada per la crítica a les novel·les de Graham Greene, Denis Johnson i George Orwell,El simpatitzant és una novel·la d