The Sympathizer

The Sympathizer

2015 • 384 pages

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Average rating4

15

Offensive on some levels, but also very moving, disturbing, thought-provoking, compelling–everything I want in a novel. (Before someone asks, as a white American, I do take some offense at the narrator's racial generalizations, which I understand fit his character and his experiences with Americans, particularly white Americans. I am not offended by his being anti-American, given what my country did to Vietnam.)

January 14, 2021