Pulitzer-winning author Viet Nguyen examines moral ambivalence in ‘The Sympathizer’

Pulitzer-winning author Viet Nguyen examines moral ambivalence in ‘The Sympathizer’

At some point very early in his literary career — maybe it was when he first saw “Apocalypse Now” at the age of 10 — Viet Thanh Nguyen experienced a revelation. From the enormous sluice of material produced about the ruinou...

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