NGUYEN VIET-THANH

(P/B) THE REFUGEES
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 ...
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Ο ΣΥΝΟΔΟΙΠΟΡΟΣ
Ένα βαθύ, συγκλονιστικό ντεμπούτο είναι το βιβλίο "Ο Συνοδοιπόρος" του Viet Thanh Nguen, είναι η ιστορία ενός ανθρώπου σε σύγκρουση, κάποιος του οποίου οι πολιτικές πεποιθήσεις είναι σε διαμάχη με τις ατομικές του πεποιθήσεις. Σε διάλογο αλλά και διαμετρικά αντίθετο με τις αφηγήσεις του πολέμου του Βιετνάμ που προηγήθηκαν αυτού, το μυθιστόρημα αυτό προσφέρει μια σημαντική και νέα προοπτική για τον πόλεμο: αυτή του διχασμένου φιλο-κομμουνιστή. "Ο Συνοδοιπόρος" έχει κερδίσει το βραβείο Pulitzer 2016 για τη λογοτεχνία, καθώς και πολλά άλλα βρ...
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(P/B) THE SYMPATHIZER
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...
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(H/B) THE REFUGEES
The Refugees is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family. From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2016. 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...
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(H/B) THE SYMPATHIZER
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...
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