Tag: Vietnam War

• Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer (2015)

  Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel begins The Sympathizer with a riddle “I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man with two faces”. What is he? Might we ask. The line was spoken by a double agent working for the North Vietnamese Communists as well as for the United States during and shortly after the…

  October 26, 2019

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