Viet Thanh Nguyen

Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.

The Sympathizer

A collection of stories written over a twenty-year period that examines the Vietnamese experience in America as well as questions of home, family, and identity.

The Refugees

The sequel to The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, The Committed follows the "man of two minds" as he comes as a refugee to France and turns his hand to capitalism, dealing drugs in 1980s Paris but unable to escape his past

The Committed

Meg Wolitzer

Jonathan Lethem

Dave Eggers

William Finnegan

Neil Gaiman

Anthony Doerr

Salman Rushdie

Lauren Groff

Marlon James

Andrew Sean Greer

Ann Patchett

Brit Bennett

Yaa Gyasi

Sergio De La Pava

Aleksandar Hemon

George Saunders

Rabih Alameddine

Jesmyn Ward

Michael Cunningham

Jennifer Egan

Louise Erdrich

Morgan Parker

Jacqueline Woodson

Steven Okazaki

Geraldine Brooks

Scott Turow

Timothy Egan

Victor Lavalle

Moses Sumney

Moriel Rothman-Zecher

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Hector Tobar

Li Yiyun

Elizabeth Strout

C.J. Anders

Brenda J. Childs

David Handler

To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

Fight of the Century

"Brings together writers originally from Mexico, Bosnia, Iran, Afghanistan, Soviet Ukraine, Hungary, Chile, Ethiopia, and others to make their stories heard ... Their 17 contributions are as diverse as their own lives have been, and yet hold just as many themes in common"--Amazon.com.

Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

The Displaced

Nothing Ever Dies, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the bestselling novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both the Americans and the Vietnamese.

Nothing Ever Dies

A Memoir, A History, A Memorial

A Man of Two Faces

The Sympathiser

Vietnam asıllı Amerikalı yazar Nguyen’den edebiyat dünyasında büyük yankı uyandıran, hakları otuza yakın ülkeye satılan ve yirmiden fazla yılın kitabı seçkisinde yer alan sarsıcı bir ilk roman. Pek çok prestijli ödüle layık görülen Sempatizan, bir gerilim romanının heyecanı ve Saul Bellow’la karşılaştırılan tarzıyla insanın ayaklarını yerden kesen bir dostluk ve ihanet destanı. Çift taraflı çalışan komünist bir ajan, kendi deyimiyle “çifte akıllı” bir adam olan hikâyenin anlatıcısı, Saygon’un düşüşünden sonra Amerika’ya gelerek Los Angeles’taki diğer sürgün Vietnamlılarla birlikte yeni bir yaşam kurmaya çalışırken, bir yandan da Vietnam’daki komünist üstlerine gizlice raporlar gönderen Yarı Fransız yarı Vietnamlı bir istihbarat subayıdır. Sempatizan, hem kimlik ve göçmenlik üzerine çok yoğun bir keşif yolculuğu, hem insanı esir alan bir casusluk romanı, hem de güçlü bir aşk ve dostluk hikâyesi. 2016 Edgar En İyi İlk Roman Ödülü 2016 PEN/Faulkner Ödülü Finalisti 2016 Dayton Edebiyat Barış Ödülü 2015 Kurmaca Merkezi İlk Roman Ödülü 2015-2016 Asya/Pasifik Amerikası Edebiyat Ödülü 2016 California İlk Kurmaca Kitap Ödülü 2017 Asya Amerika Çalışmaları Birliği Yaratıcı Yazıda En İyi Kitap Ödülü MacArthur ve Guggenheim Fellowship Ödülleri New York Times Çok Satanı

Sempatizan

Cassio Arantes Leite

O simpatizante é um épico de amor e traição. O leitor acompanha um agente duplo comunista sem nome, que se infiltrou no exército sul-vietnamita e conseguiu se refugiar nos Estados Unidos depois da Queda de Saigon. Pessoa de confiança de um general que se recusa a admitir a derrota para os vietcongues, esse homem de duas mentes observa o esforço dos refugiados vietnamitas para sobreviver em uma melancólica Los Angeles enquanto secretamente reporta a seus superiores comunistas no Vietnã. É um romance arrebatador, uma audaciosa reflexão sobre o extremismo político.

O Simpatizante

Mülteciler

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son. At the age of four, Nguyen and his family are forced to flee his hometown of Ban Mê Thuột and come to the USA as refugees. After being removed from his brother and parents and homed with a family on his own, Nguyen is later allowed to resettle into his own family in suburban San José. But there is violence hidden behind the sunny façade of what he calls AMERICATM. One Christmas Eve, when Nguyen is nine, while watching cartoons at home, he learns that his parents have been shot while working at their grocery store, the SàiGòn Mới, a place where he sometimes helps price tins of fruit with a sticker gun. Years later, as a teenager, the blood-stirring drama of the films of the Vietnam War such as Apocalypse Now throw Nguyen into an existential crisis: how can he be both American and Vietnamese, both the killer and the person being killed? When he learns about an adopted sister who has stayed back in Vietnam, and ultimately visits her, he grows to understand just how much his parents have left behind. And as his parents age, he worries increasingly about their comfort and care, and realizes that some of their older wounds are reopening. Profound in its emotions and brilliant in its thinking about cultural power, A Man of Two Faces explores the necessity of both forgetting and of memory, the promises America so readily makes and breaks, and the exceptional life story of one of the most original and important writers working today.

«In un paese dove i beni di proprietà erano lunica cosa che contasse, non avevamo niente che ci appartenesse, a parte le storie». Cosí suona un passo contenuto in uno dei magnifici racconti di questo libro che Viet Thanh Nguyen ha voluto dedicare ai «rifugiati sparsi in tutto il mondo». È laffermazione di una giovane vietnamita, la cui infanzia, in fuga dagli orrori della guerra, è stata segnata dalla drammatica esperienza di un barcone alla deriva e dalla morte del fratello ragazzino. A un certo punto della sua adolescenza negli Stati Uniti, la donna si imbatte nellesperienza propria di ogni rifugiato: scoprire di non possedere niente, se non le storie, raccontate dai genitori o serbate nel proprio personale ricordo, che mostrano limpossibilità di voltare le spalle al passato, alle persone e alle cose del vecchio mondo perduto. Come «indumenti abbandonati dai fantasmi», esse riaffiorano inevitabilmente. Limpossibilità delloblio che, come un macigno, pesa sulla necessaria ricerca di nuove identità ed appartenenze attraversa da cima a fondo tutte le storie narrate in questo libro. Dal giovane Liem che non riesce piú a riconoscere sé stesso nellistante in cui apprende davvero che cosa significa a San Francisco dire di due maschi che sono una coppia «in senso romantico»; alla proprietaria del New Saigon Market che nella sua bottega, uno dei pochi posti a San Jose dove i vietnamiti possono acquistare il riso al gelsomino e lanice stellato, vede riapparire i fantasmi della guerra nella persona della signora Hoa, ossessionata dallidea della vendetta nei confronti dei comunisti che le hanno ucciso il figlio; a James Carver, nero cresciuto in Alabama, che a Quàng Tr_, in Vietnam, scopre di aver generato una figlia fuori posto in «un mondo deciso ad assegnare a ciascuno il posto che gli spetta», linquieta ricerca di una nuova identità da parte di uomini con «due facce e due menti diverse», già oggetto delle pagine de Il simpatizzante, riemerge con chiarezza in questopera. «Libro importante di un grande scrittore con una conoscenza diretta del dramma dei diritti umani esploso sulla scena internazionale» (Washington Post), I rifugiati, accolto al suo apparire negli Stati Uniti da un grande successo di pubblico e di critica, costituisce una splendida conferma del talento di Viet Thanh Nguyen nel descrivere la complessa esistenza del «popolo nuovo» sorto dalle grandi migrazioni in atto nel mondo contemporaneo. «Storie degne di ammirazione non soltanto perché capaci di descrivere il trauma della migrazione forzata, ma anche perché affrontano i grandi temi dellidentità, della complessità dellamore e della sessualità, del disagio di vivere Nguyen scrive con una poesia unica». Financial Times Storie di persone in bilico tra una patria devasta e un ricco paese d'adozione... Un libro bello e straziante Joyce Carol Oates, New Yorker

I Rifugiati

»Meisterhaft. DER SYMPATHISANT ist zum Klassiker bestimmt.« T.C. Boyle Im April 1975 wird eine Gruppe südvietnamesischer Offiziere unter dramatischen Bedingungen aus Saigon in die USA geflogen. Darunter ein als Adjutant getarnter kommunistischer Spion. In Los Angeles soll er weiterhin ein Auge auf die politischen Gegner haben, ringt jedoch immer mehr mit seinem Doppelleben, den Absurditäten des Spionagewesens, der Konsumgesellschaft und seiner eigenen Identität: “Ich bin ein Spion, ein Schläfer, ein Maulwurf, ein Mann mit zwei Gesichtern. Da ist es vielleicht kein Wunder, dass ich auch ein Mann mit zwei Seelen bin.“ Ein literarischer Polit-Thriller über den Vietnamkrieg und seine Folgen, eine meisterhafte Aufarbeitung über die Missverständnisse zwischen Kapitalismus und Kommunismus, ein schillerndes Werk über das Scheitern von Idealen, ein bravouröser Roman über die universelle Erfahrung von Verlust, Flucht und Vertreibung.

Roman

Der Sympathisant

Black-Eyed Women

Het is april 1975 en in Saigon heerst chaos. In zijn villa zit een generaal van het Zuid Vietnamese leger whiskey te drinken en hij is samen zijn getrouwe kapitein een lijst aan het opstellen van mensen die een plaats krijgen op een van de laatste vluchten het land uit. De generaal en zijn landgenoten gaan een nieuw leven beginnen in Los Angeles. Ze zijn zich er niet van bewust dat een van hen, de kapitein, in het geheim de groep observeert en verslag uitbrengt aan een meerdere in de Vietcong. De sympathisant is het verhaal van deze kapitein, een man grootgebracht door een afwezige Franse vader en een arme Vietnamese moeder, een man die in Amerika ging studeren aan de universiteit, maar terugkeerde naar Vietnam om te vechten voor de communistische zaak. Viet Thanh Nguyens verbazingwekkende roman biedt een kijkje in de ziel van deze dubbelagent, een man wiens hooggestemde idealen vereisen dat hij de mensen die hem het meest nabij zijn moet verraden. Winnaar van: Pulitzerprize, Edgar Allan Poe Award, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Center for Fiction first novel prize, California Book Award, Asian/Pacific American Literature Award Viet Thanh Nguyen is geboren in Vietnam en opgegroeid in de Verenigde Staten. Verhalen van zijn hand zijn verschenen in Best American Voices, TriQuarterly, Narrative en de Chicago Tribune. Ook is hij de auteur van het academische boek Race and Résistance. Hij doceert Engelse en Amerikaanse Studies aan de Universiteit van Zuid-Californië en woont in Los Angeles. De sympathisant is zijn, alom geprezen, debuut. In De sympathisant vertelt Nguyen het verhaal van een man met twee zielen, iemand wiens politieke overtuigingen botsen met zijn individuele loyaliteiten. In dialoog met, maar diametraal tegenovergesteld aan de verhalen over de Vietnamese oorlog die eerder zijn verschenen, biedt deze roman een belangrijk en onbekend nieuw perspectief op de oorlog: die van een communistische sympathisant in gewetensnood.

De sympathisant

Im Jahr 1975 werden Offiziere aus Süd-Vietnam in die USA ausgeflogen. Unter ihnen befindet sich auch ein kommunistischer Spion, der die Gruppe weiterhin überwachen soll. Dieser hadert jedoch bald mit seinem Doppelleben und gerät in einen Identitätskonflikt.

Der Sympathisant : Roman

A band of intrepid chickens leave behind the boredom of farm life, joining the crew of the pirate ship Pitiless to seek fortune and glory on the high seas. Led by a grizzled captain into the territory of the Dog Knights, they soon learn what it means to be courageous, merciful, and not seasick quite so much of the time. A whimsical and unexpected adventure tale, Chicken of the Sea originated in the five-year-old mind of Ellison Nguyen, son of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen; father and son committed the story to the page, then enlisted the artistic talents of Caldecott Honor winner Thi Bui and her thirteen-year-old son, Hien Bui-Stafford, to illustrate it. This unique collaboration between two generations of artists and storytellers invites you aboard for adventure, even if you're chicken. Maybe especially if you're chicken.

Chicken of the Sea

Viet Thanh Nguyen

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