Viet Thanh Nguyen: 20 books

Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer was one of the most widely and highly praised novels of 2015, the winner not only of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but also the Center for Fiction Debut Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the ALA Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Asian/Pacific...

«In un paese dove i beni di proprietà erano lunica cosa che contasse, non avevamo niente che ci appartenesse, a parte le storie». Cosí suona un passo contenuto in uno dei magnifici racconti di questo libro che Viet Thanh Nguyen ha voluto dedicare ai «rifugiati sparsi in tutto il mondo». È laffermazione...

One World Two is the eagerly awaited follow-up to One World and another globe-trotting collection of stories. But it is more than simply an anthology of short fiction, as it contains representative literature from all over the world, conveying the reader on thought-provoking journeys across continents,...

Het is april 1975 en in Saigon heerst chaos. In zijn villa zit een generaal van het Zuid Vietnamese leger whiskey te drinken en hij is samen zijn getrouwe kapitein een lijst aan het opstellen van mensen die een plaats krijgen op een van de laatste vluchten het land uit. De generaal en zijn landgenoten...

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 capitán de su máxima confianza, prepara una lista con los nombres de aquellos que recibirán...

The Summer 2016 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. This 45th...

Nothing Ever Dies, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the bestselling novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both the Americans and the Vietnamese.

Tutte le guerre sono combattute due volte, la prima volta sul campo di battaglia, la seconda nella memoria. In Niente muore mai, Viet Thanh Nguyen torna a parlare dell’argomento che più gli sta a cuore: il Vietnam e la memoria della guerra. Dall’autore del romanzo vincitore del premio Pulitzer...

In Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals have idealized Asian America, ignoring its saturation with capitalist practices. This idealization of Asian America means that Asian American intellectuals can neither grapple with...

Ein junger vietnamesischer Geflüchteter gerät in den späten Siebzigerjahren in eine Schwulen-WG in San Francisco und erleidet einen profunden Kulturschock; ein Physikprofessor mit Demenz im Frühstadium beginnt, seine Frau mit einer Geliebten aus der alten Heimat zu verwechseln; eine junge Frau...

È il mese di aprile del 1975 a Saigon. Il mese nel quale la guerra che va avanti da tempo immemorabile ha cominciato ormai a perdere i pezzi. In una villa dalle mura ricoperte di cocci di vetro e di filo spinato arrugginito, il generale capo della Polizia Nazionale del Vietnam del Sud, colto da improvvisa...

More than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war’s legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war refugees have spawned a wide Vietnamese diaspora, and the United States military remains embroiled...

Vietnam asıllı Amerikalı yazar Nguyen’den edebiyat dünyasında büyük yankı uyandıran, hakları otuza yakın ülkeye satılan ve yirmiden fazla yılın kitabı seçkisinde yer alan sarsıcı bir ilk roman. Pek çok prestijli ödüle layık görülen Sempatizan, bir gerilim romanının...

The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as seven other awards, The Sympathizer 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, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal....