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Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the novel The Sympathizer (Grove Press, 2015). He also authored Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002) and co-edited Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (University of Hawaii Press, 2014). An associate professor at the University of Southern California, he teaches in the departments of English and American Studies and Ethnicity.

He has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (2011-2012), the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2008-2009) and the Fine Arts Work Center (2004-2005). He has also received residencies, fellowships, and grants from the Luce Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Asian Cultural Cou ...more

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	The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 123,882 ratings — published 2015 — 121 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Refugees 3.87 avg rating — 21,057 ratings — published 2017 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 10,741 ratings — published 2021 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial 4.35 avg rating — 2,379 ratings — published 2023 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author) (editor), David Bezmozgis (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Thi Bui (Contributor) 4.36 avg rating — 2,204 ratings — published 2018 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War 4.06 avg rating — 1,262 ratings — published 2018 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Simone by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author), Minnie Phan (Illustrator) 4.31 avg rating — 175 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chicken of the Sea by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author), Ellison Nguyen, Thi Bui (illustrator) 3.92 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black-Eyed Women by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author), Akhil Sharma (Foreword) 4.05 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America 4.24 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Viet Nguyen answered Lila Adhikari's question: I bought The Sympathizer as gift but ended up keeping it myself. Besides not daring to do same with The Committed, what would you tell someone planning to read it next? :) Thanks sorry for the delay! If you've already read The Committed, then A Man of Two Faces
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Viet Nguyen answered Cameron Redfern's question: I read Fatherland in my writing class bought the book. Than decided to buy Nothing Ever Dies, I got my mom to read The Sympathsizer, she loved it . My question is when we meet Man in the book , she is described as a woman , later she is referred to as he when the narrator and Boon are talking about Blood Brothers, I was wondering Why ? and thank you for your wonderful and thought provoking works I don't recall doing that, so it mus be an error
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Viet Nguyen rated a book it was amazing Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Polls

September Side Read Nominations ~ 1st Poll

Top 5 selections move onto 2nd round.

Lilac Girls

by Martha Hall Kelly

15 votes, 23.4%

The Cellist of Sarajevo

by Steven Galloway

9 votes, 14.1%

Columbine

by Dave Cullen

8 votes, 12.5%

Calling Me Home

by Julie Kibler

8 votes, 12.5%

The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

by Mitch Albom

7 votes, 10.9%

The Kindness of Strangers

by Katrina Kittle

6 votes, 9.4%

The Sympathizer

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

4 votes, 6.3%

Buffalo Girls

by Larry McMurtry

4 votes, 6.3%

Above the Waterfall

by Ron Rash

2 votes, 3.1%

The Water Knife

by Paolo Bacigalupi

1 vote, 1.6%

64 total votes

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