Author Viet Thanh Nguyen Discusses 'The Sympathizer' And His Escape From Vietnam
Pulitzer prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen says he wants to take the narrative of the Vietnam war created by Americans and retell it from the perspective of the Vietnamese. His family left Vietnam after the fall of Saigon when he was 4.
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