Lila Adhikari
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
I bought The Sympathizer as gift but ended up keeping it myself. Besides not daring to do same with The Committed, what would you tell someone planning to read it next? :) Thanks
Viet Thanh Nguyen
sorry for the delay! If you've already read The Committed, then A Man of Two Faces
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Robin
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
I'm still working my way through The Sympathizer and I'm enjoying it thoroughly, but it's the message that the book is conveying (or that I think it is) which is really hitting home. My question is; did you write this knowing that societies issues of representation and acceptance are such important talking points at the moment? Was this your way of using past events to illustrate current struggles? Or am I way off?
Franti
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
Reading in "the sympathizer" your (inspiring) pages on film-making and the americanization of the world through hollywood blockbusters I could not help to wonder if they were underscored by the zizekian mantra of ideology conveyed through filmography? Greetings from Brussels.
Jimmy
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
Mr. Nguyen, I taught English as a second language to ARVN soldiers. I now wonder about what they went through after the collapse of Saigon. Do you know of any nonfiction books that make an accounting of what re-education camps were like, how many people were executed or imprisoned, and what the citizens of South Vietnam faced when the North took over?
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