The Sympathizer

　　1975年4月，西貢陷入混亂。在某處別墅裡，一名南越軍官喝著威士忌，在他信任的隊長幫助下列出一份名單，決定誰能搭上離開這個國家的最後一班航班。

　　將軍和他的同胞在洛杉磯展開新生活，卻渾然不知在他們之中，那位隊長正暗中觀察著他們，並將一切報告給越共。

　　《The Sympathizer》講述的正是這位隊長的故事：他的法國父親從小就不在身邊，他由貧窮的越南母親扶養長大，接著到美國求學，然後返回越南為共產黨事業奮鬥。作者Viet Thanh Nguyen筆下的驚人故事，帶我們探索雙面間諜複雜的內心世界：他心中的遠大理想，必須在背叛身邊親密夥伴的狀況下才能完成。這是一部間諜小說，探討極端的政治體系、動人的愛情掙扎，體察在兩個不同世界生活的難處，並帶讀者一探越戰文學、電影軌跡。

　　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.

作者簡介

　　Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the academic books Race and Resistance and Nothing Ever Dies. He is a cultural critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times and teaches English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles.