Book · 2015 · Communists
The Sympathizer
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The Sympathizer was one that pulled surprise reading in the sun. To me, it's like being trapped in a hot car with the windows rolled up, stuck, broken.
Kerry Washington · SmartLess · Aug 2022 Listen at 5:51 What they say about it
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The best things said about it
I was late on this but I read The Sympathizer this year, I believe it's as good as everyone said it was.
This is very exciting because we have here Viet 10 n who just won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his first novel The sympathizer.
Uh i've just started the committed by vietnam who wrote uh the pulitzer prize-winning book the sympathizer this is the sequel to that which is phenomenal.
It's written by a Vietnamese American author, it's about the Vietnam War.
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Why people recommend it
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that explores the Vietnam War and its aftermath through the eyes of a communist spy of mixed French and Vietnamese descent living as a refugee in America. The book earned notable praise when Will Arnett recommended it on SmartLess, describing his experience reading it on a sunny day as being akin to being trapped in a hot car, while also noting the author's Vietnamese American background. The novel was discussed in various contexts across podcasts. Arnett revisited reading the book during vacation on a re-release episode of SmartLess, and Jason Bateman similarly mentioned reading it while away. Vu Tran brought up the author and his novel on The Book Review while discussing student experiences with feeling like a spy, and Pamela Paul welcomed the author to the same podcast to discuss his Pulitzer Prize win and paperback tour. Viet Thanh Nguyen himself appeared on the program to explain how his novel offers a radically different perspective on Vietnamese refugees.
Every mention
Will Arnett It's written by a Vietnamese American author, it's about the Vietnam War. And he's of Vietnamese descent. 2
“so I did that and then I read this the sympathizer. Have you guys read that?”
“It's written by a Vietnamese American author, it's about the Vietnam War. And he's of Vietnamese descent.”
Pamela Paul this is very exciting because we have here Viet 10 n who just won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his fir… 2
“this is very exciting because we have here Viet 10 n who just won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his first novel The sympathizer”
“so you were on tour for the paperback the paperback of this of the sympathizer right”
Dan Pfeiffer I was late on this but I read the sympathizer this year I believe uh it's as good as everyone said it was t… 1
“I was late on this but I read the sympathizer this year I believe uh it's as good as everyone said it was takes like 50 pages to get into cuz there's whatever”
Jason Bateman and then i read the the sympathizer have you guys read that 1
“and then i read the the sympathizer have you guys read that”
Jon Favreau uh i've just started the committed by vietnam who wrote uh the pulitzer prize-winning book the sympathizer… 1
“uh i've just started the committed by vietnam who wrote uh the pulitzer prize-winning book the sympathizer this is the sequel to that which is phenomenal”
Kerry Washington The Sympathizer was one that pulled surprise reading in the sun. To me, it's like being trapped in a hot ca… 1
“The Sympathizer was one that pulled surprise reading in the sun. To me, it's like being trapped in a hot car with the windows rolled up, stuck, broken.”
Viet Thanh Nguyen and so the sympathizer is a radically different kind of work which is it yes it deals with Vietnamese refug… 1
“and so the sympathizer is a radically different kind of work which is it yes it deals with Vietnamese refugees to some extent”
Vu Tran like I said you know vit Tang win uh I was a I had a student go to one of his readings you know his novel T… 1
“like I said you know vit Tang win uh I was a I had a student go to one of his readings you know his novel The sympathizer and and he had called it growing up and feeling as though he was a kind of spy”
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Other mentions (4: passing, ad reads, own books)
“this is a sequel to his debut novel The sympathizer which won the pet surprise back in like 2015”
“the first novel in this sequence of novels that he's writing um the sympathizer is set partly in Vietnam and partly in Southern California”
“one interesting name I thought was um vieten who won the pullit Sur prize for his novel The sympathizer”
“the sequel to The sympathetic forthcoming from Grove”