July Book Club - “The Sympathizer” by Viet Thanh Nguyen (2015).
For the July 18, 2016 Book Club meeting, we will read The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Date: Monday, July 18, 2016
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00pm
Place: Solana Beach - email loreencollins@roadrunner.com for directions.
Facilitator: Loreen unless we have another volunteer
Optional: Bring food or drink to share.
From amazon.com:
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, compared by critics to the works of Graham Greene, Denis Johnson, and George Orwell, The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity, politics, and America, wrought in electric prose. The narrator, a Vietnamese army captain, is a man of divided loyalties, a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist sleeper agent in America after the end of the Vietnam War. A powerful story of love and friendship, and a gripping espionage novel, The Sympathizer examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.