eBook, 392 pages
Português language
Published May 19, 2017 by Alfaguara.
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 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.
4.5 really! read for the new sociology book club! It was very very good, gripping, incredibly harrowing at times. The bits on Hollywood and representation really hit, and I hope to think through them some more. I thought it was funny that the sympathizer had to remind us that he had a big penis at least two or three times, including when he was about to get horribly tortured.
This book is absolutely amazing, though, I should say, it should come with every trigger warning imaginable. A book I somehow could neither put down nor read more than a few pages at a time.
This book is absolutely amazing, though, I should say, it should come with every trigger warning imaginable. A book I somehow could neither put down nor read more than a few pages at a time.
I picked it up because I remember it getting a lot of good reviews. Those were warranted. The book is written in the style of a confession from a VC spy who worked for the South Vietnamese military, gets into the US as a refugee to keep a close eye on his general boss, and gets sent back to Vietnam on a supposed mission to fight the victorious North. Things get awry after that. It's a compelling narrative from a Vietnamese perspective.
I picked it up because I remember it getting a lot of good reviews. Those were warranted. The book is written in the style of a confession from a VC spy who worked for the South Vietnamese military, gets into the US as a refugee to keep a close eye on his general boss, and gets sent back to Vietnam on a supposed mission to fight the victorious North. Things get awry after that. It's a compelling narrative from a Vietnamese perspective.
A beautifully written work of art with thought-provoking symbolism and complex characters awaits those of you who choose to pick this one up. It is many stories, tragic ones, told from a point of view that I haven't experienced before. Nguyen inserts humor into some of his descriptions that acted as comic relief for me, and just when I thought the plot would get slower, along comes a bombshell...
The Sympathizer is both a captivating and challenging read. I recommend it.
A beautifully written work of art with thought-provoking symbolism and complex characters awaits those of you who choose to pick this one up. It is many stories, tragic ones, told from a point of view that I haven't experienced before. Nguyen inserts humor into some of his descriptions that acted as comic relief for me, and just when I thought the plot would get slower, along comes a bombshell...
The Sympathizer is both a captivating and challenging read. I recommend it.
