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NY Times Book Review cover The Sympathizer
The New York Times Book Review cover, April 5, 2015
The Sympathizer is a novel by Vietnamese American author Viet Thanh Nguyen. Vietnam War, often looked at from the American viewpoint, is written from a Vietnamese solder’s perspective, and how he is stuck between being a Vietnamese and his new life in California.
The review is written by Philip Caputo.
art direction: Nicholas Blechman