The Sympathizer (Signed)
New York: Grove Press, 2015.
Twelfth Printing. Paperback.
Presentation inscription signed by the author on the title page. Signed to writer Cai (Emmons) - "From one writer to another - my sympathies!" Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
A saga of love and betrayal and espionage. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a "man of two minds," a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles, is secretly reporting back to his comrades at home.
Item #901984ISBN: 9780802124944
5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, stiff pictorial wrappers, 403pp, followed by an essay “Our Vietnam War Never Ended” by Nguyen and an interview by Paul Tran entitled “Viet Thanh Nguyen: Anger in the Asian American Novel.”
Clean, crisp, bright, unread, a fine copy.
Price: $40.00
