![]() ![]() ![]() His books are comic, tragic, ribald, poignant, and often so enigmatic his work has been compared to a Zen koan. As a writer, Nguyen defies categorization. A third novel is in the works, along with a memoir, and an HBO series based on The Sympathizer starring Robert Downey Jr. His 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizerand its 2021 sequel, The Committed, follow the misadventures of a nameless protagonist on a futile search for identity in the expatriate Vietnamese community in Los Angeles, a Hollywood set of a Vietnam War movie, a Communist North Vietnamese reeducation camp, and the criminal underworld of Paris. Nguyen serves up the existential despair left behind by the war as black comedy, but the torn lives and shattered beliefs he depicts are deadly serious. But the Vietnam War and its personal, political, and emotional toll is at the heart of the work of the novelist and social critic Viet Thanh Nguyen. ![]() He was only four when his parents fled Vietnam for America in 1975, and he has few memories of the war. ![]()
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