New Releases by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of To Save and to Destroy (2025), Simone (2024), De man met twee gezichten (2024), The Sympathizer - Le Sympathisant (2024), De sympathisant (2024).

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To Save and to Destroy

release date: Jan 01, 2025
To Save and to Destroy
Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen''s To Save and to Destroy is a deeply personal reflection on outsiders in literature and in US society. Across six essays, first delivered as the Norton Lectures, Nguyen offers insightful readings of authors who shaped his craft, culminating in a poignant and vigorous call for a solidarity of the devastated.

Simone

release date: May 07, 2024
Simone
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and illustrator Minnie Phan comes an unforgettable story of a Vietnamese American girl whose life is transformed by a wildfire. When Simone is awakened by her mom as a wildfire threatens their home, it is the beginning of a life-changing journey. On their way to take shelter in a high school gym, the family passes firefighters from a prison unit battling the fire. Simone’s mom tells her that when she was a girl in Viet Nam, she was forced to evacuate her home after a flood. Joined by other children sheltering in the gym, Simone, a budding artist, encourages everyone to draw as a way to process their situation. After a few days, Simone and her mom are able to return to their home, which is fortunately still standing, and her outlook has changed. As Simone begins creating a piece of art with one of her new friends, she realizes that even though they are young, they can dream and work together for a more sustainable future. With a poetic, haunting family story by esteemed author Viet Thanh Nguyen and gorgeous art from illustrator Minnie Phan, this powerful tale introduces an unforgettable young heroine who awakens to a new role fighting for her community and for the future of the planet.

De man met twee gezichten

release date: May 02, 2024
De man met twee gezichten
Viet Thanh Nguyen is vier jaar oud als hij en zijn familie gedwongen worden om Vietnam te verlaten. Als vluchtelingen komen ze aan in de Verenigde Staten, waar de kleine Viet direct bij zijn ouders wordt weggehaald en bij een Amerikaanse familie wordt ondergebracht. Later is het gezin weer herenigd en vestigt zich in San José. Achter de zonnige façade van wat Nguyen AMERIKATM noemt, gaat geweld schuil. Op kerstavond, als de negenjarige Viet thuis tekenfilms kijkt, hoort hij dat zijn ouders zijn neergeschoten terwijl ze aan het werk waren in hun kruidenierswinkel. Jaren later ziet de tiener Nguyen films over de Vietnamoorlog, zoals Apocalyps Now, en het bloedstollende drama brengt hem in een existentiële crisis: hoe kan hij zowel Amerikaan als Vietnamees zijn, zowel de moordenaar als de persoon die gedood wordt? ‘De man met twee gezichten biedt een humoristische maar ook sarcastische blik op wat het inhoudt om vluchteling, immigrant en Amerikaan te zijn in een omgeving die jou niet ziet zoals jij jezelf ziet.’ – Time Magazine ''De man met twee gezichten zal voor veel witte (Amerikaanse) lezers een onthutsende leeservaring zijn.''- De Groene Amsterdammer

The Sympathizer - Le Sympathisant

release date: Apr 26, 2024

De sympathisant

release date: Jan 01, 2024
De sympathisant
Als in Vietnam de oorlog in alle hevigheid woedt en de Vietcong oprukt naar Saigon krijgt een revolutionaire Vietnamese officier van de communisten de opdracht de Zuid-Vietnamezen te bespioneren.

A Man of Two Faces

release date: Oct 03, 2023
A Man of Two Faces
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son. At the age of four, Nguyen and his family are forced to flee his hometown of Ban Mê Thuột and come to the USA as refugees. After being removed from his brother and parents and homed with a family on his own, Nguyen is later allowed to resettle into his own family in suburban San José. But there is violence hidden behind the sunny façade of what he calls AMERICATM. One Christmas Eve, when Nguyen is nine, while watching cartoons at home, he learns that his parents have been shot while working at their grocery store, the SàiGòn Mới, a place where he sometimes helps price tins of fruit with a sticker gun. Years later, as a teenager, the blood-stirring drama of the films of the Vietnam War such as Apocalypse Now throw Nguyen into an existential crisis: how can he be both American and Vietnamese, both the killer and the person being killed? When he learns about an adopted sister who has stayed back in Vietnam, and ultimately visits her, he grows to understand just how much his parents have left behind. And as his parents age, he worries increasingly about their comfort and care, and realizes that some of their older wounds are reopening. Profound in its emotions and brilliant in its thinking about cultural power, A Man of Two Faces explores the necessity of both forgetting and of memory, the promises America so readily makes and breaks, and the exceptional life story of one of the most original and important writers working today.

告白者(普立茲獎得主阮越清《同情者》全新續作)

release date: May 02, 2023
告白者(普立茲獎得主阮越清《同情者》全新續作)
普立茲獎得主阮越清和他的「雙面人」回來了! 比爾蓋茲推薦,紐約時報、華爾街日報、衛報等年度最佳圖書 普立茲獎、戴頓文學和平獎、麥克阿瑟獎、卡內基優秀小說獎得主 阮越清睽違六年續作重磅上市!《同情者》全新續集 小說家 朱嘉漢──專文導讀 媒體工作者 阿潑、小說家 王聰威、作家王鷗行、胡志明市師範大學越南文學系講師 阮荷安、臥斧、小說家 高翊峰、燦爛時光東南亞書店負責人 張正、中山大學外文系退休教授張錦忠、作家 陳又津、譯者 楊詠翔、小說家 駱以軍、作家 謝哲青──極力推薦(以姓氏筆畫排序) 《同情者》傲人成績: 【奪下 10 座文學桂冠】 普立茲小說獎、美國推理作家協會愛倫坡獎最佳新人小說、美國圖書館協會安德魯.卡內基優秀小説獎、戴頓文學和平獎、麥克阿瑟獎、美籍亞太文學獎、亞美研究協會最佳圖書獎、加州書獎小說新人獎、小説中心小説新人獎、法國最佳外國小說獎 【六項入圍】 國際都柏林文學獎、筆會/福克納小說獎、筆會/賓厄姆小說新人獎、美國獨立書商協會選書獎、洛杉磯時報書獎、梅迪奇圖書俱樂部獎 【年度最佳圖書】 紐約時報、華爾街日報、華盛頓郵報、西雅圖時報、堪薩斯城星、奧蘭多每週、衛報、每日野獸、圖書館期刊、柯克斯評論、出版人周刊、書單、國家郵報 比爾.蓋茲2017年閱讀書單五本書之一 全球熱銷超過百萬本 繁中版獲博客來、誠品、城邦讀書花園、金石堂、讀冊五大通路當月選書 而《告白者》—— 普立茲獎作品《同情者》續集 Amazon 2021年3月選書、Amazon4.5顆星好評 殖民和被殖民、謀殺與同情, 一切的對立都在這裡…… 或許我已不再是間諜或臥底,但我絕對是個幽靈。 一九八○年代初期,雙面人,或者稱之為雙心人的軍官「我」,與血盟兄弟阿邦一同來到了巴黎。兩人決心努力走出過去的陰霾,建立穩固的未來,而選擇的方式是資本主義最純粹的形式:販毒。 「我」遭受昔日拜把兄弟阿敏殘虐酷刑的再教育而身心受創,另一方面又吃力地想融入法國文化,因此發現巴黎是個既迷人又惱人的地方。在法越混血「堂姑」舉辦的晚宴上,認識了一群左派知識分子,他們不但刺激了我的思想,也成為我所販售的毒品的顧客。然而,我所建立的新生活潛藏著我未曾預見的危機,包括染上毒癮的自我折磨、侷限在殖民心態中的國家所瀰漫的威權主義,或是面對一個似乎無法解決的問題:該如何才能讓他最親密的兩位朋友重聚──即便他們的立場使他們處於絕對對立的狀態。 我們是無人想要、無人需要、無人看見的一群人……我們──會──活下去。 同情者需要拿出所有的機智、謀才和道德彈性,才能克服難關。 《告白者》延續其一鳴驚人處女作《同情者》的刺激、緊湊的情節外,同樣運用第一人稱的獨白與倒敘法,描述主角離開美國的後續故事。透過主角的自我對話呈現自我存在與各種主義的反思,深刻地叩問殖民與被殖民、難民等社會面向。《告白者》緊張懸疑,又直探存在主義精神,以炙熱的筆觸描繪出忠誠與背叛的面貌,勢必讓阮越清成為美國文學界的蒼穹中,永遠不墜的一顆星。

一切未曾逝去:越南與戰爭記憶(普立茲獎得主阮越清又一鉅作)

release date: Nov 08, 2022
一切未曾逝去:越南與戰爭記憶(普立茲獎得主阮越清又一鉅作)
普立茲獎、麥克阿瑟天才獎、卡內基優秀小說獎得主—阮越清 繼《同情者》《流亡者》,又一繁體中文版譯作! 所有戰爭都會打兩次 一次在戰場上,一次在記憶裡 著有《同情者》《流亡者》的普立茲獎得主阮越清一反過往用故事牽繫母國的移民歷史, 改以夾敘夾議去反思並藉由實際走訪描寫戰爭過後諸多文化現象, 以倫理道德、產業型態與當今美學三個層面探討戰爭與記憶的連結。 《一切未曾逝去》企圖探究戰爭與記憶的關係,思辨各國基於本我立足點上, 面對戰爭的心態與歷史軌跡,充分闡述了時代下記憶的矛盾、苦痛與寬恕。 深入從小說、回憶錄、紀念碑、雕像、電影、攝影、藝術、展覽等文化流行層面探究戰爭背景下的影響, 囊括美國人、越南人、老撾人、柬埔寨人、韓國人和東南亞裔美國人,那些戰後記憶, 有多少是被記得或有多少是被扭曲? 而其記憶到底是公正或有其偏頗? 說到戰爭總是特別難以嚥下,即便止於1975年的越南戰爭其衍伸的效應卻綿延至今。 如今,觀光客人手一只的ZIPPO打火機,乍看之下只是具備懷舊情懷的紀念品, 實質卻是以美國本位思想宣揚英雄主義的置入、 電影院重映的《現代啟示錄》(Apocalypse Now)則變成了反覆的沉痛戰爭回放, 而歷史上若無發生導致南北韓分裂的韓國戰爭(Korean War)是否就影響了現代流行文化進程了呢? 作者阮越清深刻挖掘戰爭、記憶和身分,走訪各地,並將自身與讀者放在利益交錯的戰爭背景文化中, 將深刻的文化產物攝影紀錄下來成為最艱難但卻最值得緬懷寬恕的回憶。

El idealista

release date: Mar 30, 2022
El idealista
La esperada secuela de El simpatizante, premio Pulitzer de ficción. Un trepidante thriller político heredero del mejor John le Carré, pero con el humor y la violencia de Quentin Tarantino. «Una obra maestra.» Marlon James «Nguyen en su forma más valiente y ambiciosa. Una novela feroz, inteligente, portentosa y profundamente documentada.» Ocean Vuong «Uno de nuestros grandes cronistas de la inmigración.» Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker París, principio de los años ochenta. Tras escapar de Vietnam y de su paso como inmigrante por Estados Unidos, el protagonista sin nombre de esta historia llega a la capital francesa para intentar labrarse un futuro valiéndose del capitalismo en una de sus formas más puras: el tráfico de drogas. Aunque su vida ya no corre peligro físico, sigue torturándose por su pasado como agente doble y luchando por asimilar la cultura dominante occidental europea. A medida que se une a un grupo de intelectuales y políticos de izquierda, encuentra no solo un estímulo para pasar página, sino también clientes para su negocio. Con lo que no cuenta es con la presencia de otros peligros no previstos, desde la opresión del gobierno a la adicción a las drogas, pasando por un problema aparentemente irresoluble: cómo puede reunir a sus dos amigos más cercanos, Bon y Man, dos hombres cuyas visiones del mundo e ideales son completamente opuestos. La esperada secuela de El simpatizante, que le valió a Viet Thanh Nguyen el premio Pulitzer de ficción y el reconocimiento mundial de crítica y publico, es a la vez un thriller político repleto de humor y violencia y una inteligente novela de ideas con agudas reflexiones sobre el racismo, el colonialismo y la hipocresía.

O Comprometido

release date: Nov 08, 2021
O Comprometido
Um thriller literário brilhante e existencialista que retrata com virulência a opressão e a alteridade, o compromisso e a traição, tendo como pano de fundo a Guerra do Vietname e as consequências nefastas das ideologias. Autor vencedor do Prémio Pulitzer «Ali estava eu, um homem de duas caras. Qual delas estaria naquele momento a mostrar a mim mesmo e a eles? O que era eu, um revolucionário ou um reacionário? E, sendo um revolucionário, qual era a minha luta? Com que credo estava comprometido?» Vo Danh, ou Anónimo, antigo espião tornado refugiado, simpatizante comunista que sobreviveu a um campo de reeducação, filho de uma mãe vietnamita pobre e de um pai francês ausente, chega a Paris no início dos anos 80, para começar mais uma vida nova. Na Cidade das Luzes, aguarda-o o Patrão, a quem prestará serviço como passador de droga, e uma «tia» editora que lhe dará guarida, estímulo intelectual e incentivo à escrita. Carregando consigo os fantasmas da guerra e dos seus crimes, e a sua herança euro-asiática, as centenas de páginas da sua confissão procuram responder à mais importante questão do século XX: «O que fazer?». Nesta sua última descida ao Inferno, Vo Danh enceta uma busca conturbada pela sua identidade, enquanto tenta integrar-se à força numa cultura ocidental dominante que o perturba e seduz. O Comprometido é um thriller literário brilhante e existencialista que retrata com virulência a opressão e a alteridade, o compromisso e a traição, tendo como pano de fundo a Guerra do Vietname e as consequências nefastas das ideologias. Os elogios da crítica: « O Comprometido prolonga esse livro de estreia ( O Simpatizante), pondo o acento tónico em questões de identidade e género. Radicado nos Estados Unidos desde a queda de Saigão, o autor não esquece as humilhações sofridas pelo seu povo. De certo modo, um ajuste de contas pós-colonial. E Nguyen faz isso muito bem.» Eduardo Pitta, Sábado «Nguyen é um escritor perspicaz, cáustico e extraordinariamente divertido.» Los Angeles Review of Books «Uma criação literária única, verdadeiramente original.» The New York Review of Books

Le Dévoué

release date: Oct 21, 2021
Le Dévoué
La suite très attendue du Sympathisant, Prix Pulitzer 2016 ! Où l''on retrouve Vo Danh, le fameux agent double, plongé dans le Paris des années 80, sa faune interlope, ses philosophes marxistes et sa Place de la Bastille... Chef d''œuvre d''inventivité et de drôlerie, Le Dévoué est aussi un grand roman politique sur l''identité et sur l''Histoire qui n''en finit pas de nous rattraper. Paris, été 1981 Après avoir réchappé d''un camp de rééducation, Vo Danh (l''homme sans nom, l''espion, l''agent double à la solde des communistes, héros et narrateur du Sympathisant) atterrit à Paris en même temps qu''une cohorte de réfugiés vietnamiens. Il est accompagné de Bon, son frère de sang, toujours aussi résolument anti-communiste (et ignorant de la double identité de Vo Danh). Tous deux logés dans le 11ème arrondissement de Paris, ils se lancent à l''assaut de la capitale bien décidés à faire leur trou et surtout à se remettre de leurs émotions. Hélas, Le Boss, leur seul contact à Paris, n''est autre qu''un trafiquant notoire qui leur offre en guise de job, de devenir ses hommes de main, chargés de régler leur compte aux mauvais payeurs et autres resquilleurs.ÂÂÂ Bien trop sensible pour supporter toute cette violence, Vo Danh propose au Boss de se lancer dans un trafic de cannabis auprès des intellectuels de gauche et autres philosophes marxistes. Un business plus tranquille et plus lucratif. Du moins le croit-il, car très vite, il se retrouve au cœur d''une brutale lutte de territoire entre dealers algériens. Et comme si tout cela ne suffisait pas, Bon et lui apprennent une incroyable nouvelle : l''homme masqué, leur tortionnaire au camp de rééducation, serait lui aussi à Paris et occuperait un poste important à l''ambassade du Vietnam. Pour Vo Danh qui pensait couler des jours heureux à Paris, boire des crèmes en terrasse tout en se goinfrant de croissant, les ennuis ne font que commencer... Â

Die Idealisten

release date: May 24, 2021
Die Idealisten
Paris, 1981: Die Hauptstadt der ehemaligen Kolonialmacht ist für viele vietnamesische Flüchtlinge der rettende Hafen nach einer langen Irrfahrt über die Weltmeere. Auch der namenlose Ich-Erzähler und sein bester Freund Bon haben es aus ihrer Heimat nach Europa geschafft. Auf der Suche nach einem Job geraten sie an die vietnamesische Drogenmafia. Als Dealer machen sie ein gutes Geschäft, und der Ich-Erzähler, ein ehemaliger kommunistischer Spion, profitiert von einem Wirtschaftssystem, das er eigentlich ablehnt. Im Konflikt mit sich selbst und ständig konfrontiert mit rassistischen Übergriffen, sucht er nach einem neuen Lebensentwurf. Dabei wird ihm der beste Freund zum größten Widersacher und der sichere Hafen Paris zur tückischen Falle.

The Committed

release date: Mar 02, 2021
The Committed
The long-awaited follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide, The Committed follows the man of two minds as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. Traumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, Man, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals whom he meets at dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese “aunt,” he finds stimulation for his mind but also customers for his narcotic merchandise. But the new life he is making has perils he has not foreseen, whether the self-torture of addiction, the authoritarianism of a state locked in a colonial mindset, or the seeming paradox of how to reunite his two closest friends whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition. The Sympathizer will need all his wits, resourcefulness, and moral flexibility if he is to prevail. Both highly suspenseful and existential, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen’s position in the firmament of American letters.

Fight of the Century

release date: Jan 21, 2020
Fight of the Century
The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

Chicken of the Sea

release date: Nov 26, 2019
Chicken of the Sea
A band of intrepid chickens leave behind the boredom of farm life, joining the crew of the pirate ship Pitiless to seek fortune and glory on the high seas. Led by a grizzled captain into the territory of the Dog Knights, they soon learn what it means to be courageous, merciful, and not seasick quite so much of the time. A whimsical and unexpected adventure tale, Chicken of the Sea originated in the five-year-old mind of Ellison Nguyen, son of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen; father and son committed the story to the page, then enlisted the artistic talents of Caldecott Honor winner Thi Bui and her thirteen-year-old son, Hien Bui-Stafford, to illustrate it. This unique collaboration between two generations of artists and storytellers invites you aboard for adventure, even if you''re chicken. Maybe especially if you''re chicken.

Les Réfugiés

release date: Sep 05, 2019
Les Réfugiés
Auteur du retentissant Sympathisant, Viet Thanh Nguyen livre un recueil de nouvelles d''une justesse, d''une acuité et d''une élégance peu communes, et offre sa voix à tous les déracinés. Dans un pays où tout était affaire de possessions, nous ne possédions rien d''autre que nos histoires. Vietnamiens, ils ont fui le communisme à la fin des années 1970 pour s''exiler de l''autre côté du Pacifique, en Californie. Ils vivent entre deux rives, entre pays d''adoption et pays de naissance, pas encore Américains, plus tout à fait Vietnamiens. Certains sont figés dans le passé, hantés par les fantômes, effarés par l''hédonisme occidental ; d''autres veulent aller de l''avant, pour eux, pour les enfants, pour la possibilité d''une autre vie. Pour n''être plus simplement des réfugiés.

Jamais rien ne meurt

release date: Sep 05, 2019
Jamais rien ne meurt
Toutes les guerres sont livrées deux fois, la première sur les champs de bataille et la seconde dans les mémoires. Après le retentissement international du Sympathisant, Viet Thanh Nguyen revient avec un essai remarquable et érudit sur la guerre, la mémoire et l''identité. Puisant dans sa propre histoire, celle d''un intellectuel vietnamien ayant vécu l''exil et grandi aux États-Unis, l''auteur s''interroge sur cette guerre que les Vietnamiens nomment " américaine " et que les Américains nomment " du Vietnam ". De quelle manière est-elle remémorée, commémorée, industrialisée ? Quels sont les enjeux de la bataille du souvenir ? Analysant de nombreuses formes de témoignage, dont essais, romans, photographies, films, monuments commémoratifs, Viet Thanh Nguyen dépasse l''interprétation binaire du conflit pour tenter de restituer une mémoire juste, globale, qui prendrait aussi en considération d''autres points de vue, notamment ceux des civils, des ennemis, des vaincus et des populations alentour. Chercher à restituer la vérité pour que jamais rien ne meure. Reconnaître la part d''humanité et d''inhumanité de chacun. Permettre la réconciliation et, ainsi, éviter que l''Histoire ne se répète.

Flyktningene

release date: Jun 06, 2019
Flyktningene
«Vet du hva jeg likte best med den tiden?» Han ristet på hodet. Vi satt i sofaen i kjellerkontoret, som var varmere enn stuen i november. «Etter bombingen gikk vi ut, og du holdt meg i hånden mens vi sto og blunket mot solen. Jeg likte så godt at det kom lys etter mørket når vi gjemte oss. Og stillhet etter tordenbrakene.» Flyktningene er en samling korte fortellinger om livene til vietnamesiske flyktninger i USA, og om de utfordringer alle immigranter står overfor i møte med en annen og helt ny virkelighet. Gjennom samlingens åtte noveller møter vi menn og kvinner på flukt fra sitt hjemland, sin arv og seg selv. Novellenes hovedpersoner befinner seg ofte i brutte familierelasjoner og ødelagte forhold, og kjemper med motstridende følelser omkring individualitet og tilhørighet. Kommunikasjon mellom mennesker er et gjennomgående tema i disse historiene, hvor språk – eller mangel på språk – både binder mennesker sammen og separerer dem, spesielt på tvers av generasjoner. Viet Thanh Nguyen (f. 1971) er født i Vietnam og oppvokst i Amerika. Han er professor og forfatter, og har tittelen Arnold Chair of English og Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity ved University of Southern California. For sin debutroman, The Sympathizer (2015), ble han belønnet med åtte litterære priser, inkludert Edgar Award og den høythengende Pulitzer-prisen. I 2017 mottok han The MacArthur «Genius Grant», som tildeles individer som viser ekstraordinær originalitet og dedikasjon innenfor sitt fag. «En kraftig motgift til all løgnen og fremmedfrykten der ute.» - Independent «Viet Thanh Nguyens nye novellesamling er like upåklagelig skrevet som den er betimelig.» - Washington Post «Presis uten å være kynisk, humoristisk uten å være nedlatende, og full av forståelse; flere av novellene kunne like gjerne vært skrevet av en moderne Flaubert, hadde han tilbrakt tid i San Jose eller Ho Chi Minh City.» - Kirkus Review «Vinneren av Pulitzer-prisen 2016 er tilbake med en nydelig utformet novelle-amling ... Nguyen skildrer vietnamesiske flykt-ningers underverden, deres liv og kulturelle annerledeshet med presisjon og eleganse.» - O, The Oprah Magazine «En rik skildring av identitet, familiebånd, kjærlighet og tap – aldri har en novellesamling vært så tidsriktig.» - Independent «Svært lite i disse historiene vil kunne glemmes lett.» - Los Angeles Times «Suveren.» - The New York Times Flyktningene er den første av Viet Thanh Nguyens bøker som er oversatt til norsk.

Die Geflüchteten

release date: Oct 08, 2018
Die Geflüchteten
Menschen im Transitzustand Ein junger vietnamesischer Geflüchteter gerät in den späten Siebzigerjahren in eine Schwulen-WG in San Francisco und erleidet einen profunden Kulturschock; ein dementer Physikprofessor beginnt, seine Frau mit einer Geliebten aus der alten Heimat zu verwechseln; eine junge Frau besucht ihre Halbgeschwister in Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt und gibt vor im Einwanderungsland Amerika erfolgreicher zu sein, als sie eigentlich ist. Dieser Band versammelt acht Erzählungen über Menschen, die in den Monaten und Jahren nach dem Fall von Saigon aus Vietnam geflüchtet sind und versuchen, in Amerika eine neue Heimat zu finden. Ein fesselndes Zeugnis der universellen Erfahrung von Verlust, Flucht, Vertreibung und der Suche nach der eigenen Identität.

流亡者

release date: Aug 02, 2018
流亡者
Traditional Chinese edition of The Refugees

De vluchtelingen

release date: Mar 07, 2018
De vluchtelingen
In De vluchtelingen geeft Viet Thanh Nguyen een stem aan alle mensen die zich tussen twee werelden bevinden, tussen het geadopteerde vaderland en het geboorteland. Nguyen vertelt ons onder meer over een jonge Vietnamese vluchteling die een ernstige cultuurschok oploopt als hij met twee homoseksuele mannen in San Francisco gaat wonen, over een vrouw wier man aan dementie lijdt en haar begint te verwarren met een vroegere geliefde, en over een meisje in Ho Chi Minh Stad van wie het oudere halfzusje terugkomt uit Amerika en schijnbaar alles heeft bereikt wat zij nooit zal doen.

同情者

release date: Jan 04, 2018
同情者
◆2016 年普立茲小說獎得獎作,轟動英語文壇的耀眼新星 ◆入圍全球 16 項圖書獎、奪下 10 座文學桂冠,超過 20 家歐美主流媒體年度最佳圖書 ◆媲美杜思妥也夫斯基《雙重人格》、左拉《人面獸心》、史蒂文生《化身博士》 ◆ 比爾.蓋茲2017年閱讀書單五本書之一 ◆ 2018年1月誠品書店中文選書 ◆2018年1月博客來網路書店選書 ◆ 2018年1月城邦讀書花園選書 ◆2016年6月誠品書店外文選書 大時代下的小人物如何面臨內心交戰、國家民族與身分認同的撕裂拉扯,震撼人心 近 25 萬字篇幅的深刻書寫,從戰火中看見人性、自荒謬裡得到救贖 【十項獲獎】 普立茲小說獎、美國推理作家協會愛倫坡獎最佳新人小說、美國圖書館協會安德魯.卡內基優秀小?獎、戴頓文學和平獎、麥克阿瑟獎、美籍亞太文學獎、亞美研究協會最佳圖書獎、加州書獎小說新人獎、小?中心小?新人獎、法國最佳外國小說獎。 【六項入圍】 國際都柏林文學獎、筆會/福克納小說獎、筆會/賓厄姆小說新人獎、美國獨立書商協會選書獎、洛杉磯時報書獎、梅迪奇圖書俱樂部獎。 【年度最佳圖書】 紐約時報、華爾街日報、華盛頓郵報、西雅圖時報、堪薩斯城星、奧蘭多每週、衛報、每日野獸、圖書館期刊、柯克斯評論、出版人周刊、書單、國家郵報。 透過一名「雙心人」(同時擁有越南與美國這兩個國家的思維及視角)扭曲的、自白式的口吻,講述一個層次豐富的移民故事。 ——普立茲獎評委會 如同越南,台灣在近代史上也曾因戰爭、分裂與占據,對人造成巨大傷害。人民與文學如何去面對這樣的過去呢?這是我在這本小說中試圖探討的問題。 ——阮越清寫給台灣讀者的話 我是一名間諜,一名沉睡者,一介幽靈,一名雙面人。 1975年4月,西貢陷入動亂。在某處別墅裡,一名將軍喝著威士忌,在他信任的軍官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飛機。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,那位軍官正暗中觀察著他們,並將一切報告給越共。 《同情者》講述的正是這位軍官的故事:他的法國父親從小就不在身邊,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。作者阮越清筆下的驚人故事,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。 這部作品是一首氣勢磅礡、描寫愛與背叛的史詩,全書呈現驚悚小說的步調與懸疑性,以尖刻的手法探索認同問題、體察在兩個不同世界生活的難處,同時也是個關於愛與友誼、感人至深的故事。 【齊聲推薦】 王聰威(小說家) 阿潑(作家) 臥斧(文字工作者) 紀大偉(美國UCLA文學博士、《同志文學史》作者) 胡培菱(外文書評人) 高翊峰(小說家、編劇) 陳又津(小說家) 張正(燦爛時光東南亞書店負責人) 張國立(作家) 黃宗鼎(獨立評論在天下「東南亞風輕使館」專欄作家) 駱以軍(作家) 謝哲青(作家) 【專文解說】 越南胡志明市師範大學文學語言研究系教師 阮荷安 ★ 透過一名「雙心人」(同時擁有越南與美國這兩個國家的思維及視角)扭曲的、自白式的口吻,講述一個層次豐富的移民故事。 ——普立茲獎評委會 ★ 如同越南,台灣在近代史上也曾因戰爭、分裂與占據,對人造成巨大傷害。人民與文學如何去面對這樣的過去呢?這是我在這本小說中試圖探討的問題。 ——阮越清寫給台灣讀者的話 【各方推薦與媒體書評】 ★ 充滿機智、毫不留情的步調與野蠻的趣味。 ——《華爾街日報》(年度最佳圖書) ★ 令人矚目的處女作……集驚悚小說與社會嘲諷小說之大成。 ——《紐約時報》書評(封面書評),菲利浦.卡普托 ★ 令人驚嘆之作……?阮越清〕以驚悚小說的理性外衣包裹一個絕望流亡者的故事,正視了這個時代的存在難題。 ——《華盛頓郵報》,羅恩.查爾斯 ★ 這部處女作讓人欲罷不能(讀吧,每個人都會把它看完),看過後你會重新思考越戰(讀吧,每個人都會有一點想法)……作者阮越清這本黑色喜劇小說從一個少見的角度來探討美國文化。 ——歐普拉讀書俱樂部 ★ 瞠目結舌、不敢置信、銘刻於心。筆法高超卓絕,真不敢相信這是作者的處女作。(我除了感動,應該還有一絲忌妒。)顛覆了我們對越南小說的觀點。 ——《芝加哥論壇報》,約翰.華納 ★ 阮越清不只為由越戰所衍生的美國文學圈帶來罕見而真實的聲音,他也創造了一本凌駕於歷史、政治與國籍之上的書,探討那永恆不朽的文學主題:自我與身分認同的普遍探索。《同情者》是一部一流的小說處女作,作者極具深度與技巧。 ——普立茲獎得主、《奇山異香》作者羅伯特.奧倫.巴特勒 ★ 一篇戰爭紀錄以間諜驚悚小說包裝,塞進一份自白當中……阮越清耍弄各種文類就像飛拋著無數AK-47步槍,效果炫目,又不時令人捧腹……《同情者》針對這場戰爭與其對越南人民造成的慘痛影響,提出了不同觀點,自然受到讀者青睞。 ——書評網「民眾書庫」 ★ 阮越清撼動了一般人對越戰的刻板觀念……文筆靈巧,不時滑稽逗趣,有時又令人毛骨悚然……讓他躋身於描述赤裸裸且極具爭議的雙重性格的偉大小說傳統,而這類小說多半出於十九世紀,包括有杜思妥也夫斯基的《雙重人格》、左拉的《人面獸心》與史蒂文生的《化身博士》。 ——線上藝術雜誌《Arts Fuse》 ★ 許多讀者只認同那種長期不受質疑或沒有爭議的宏大敘事,而阮越清這本小說便試圖讓他們迷失方向,亦可說是為他們重新導向。 ——耶魯大學雙月報《喧囂》 ★ ?一部〕驚人的新人小說……使得有關歷史與人性的討論更加熱烈,而他筆下的敘述者擁有一個尖刻且時時警惕的聲音。 ——《出版人周刊》(星號、專欄書評)? 出版社 馬可孛羅 (城邦)

I Rifugiati

release date: Oct 04, 2017
I Rifugiati
«In un paese dove i beni di proprietà erano lunica cosa che contasse, non avevamo niente che ci appartenesse, a parte le storie». Cosí suona un passo contenuto in uno dei magnifici racconti di questo libro che Viet Thanh Nguyen ha voluto dedicare ai «rifugiati sparsi in tutto il mondo». È laffermazione di una giovane vietnamita, la cui infanzia, in fuga dagli orrori della guerra, è stata segnata dalla drammatica esperienza di un barcone alla deriva e dalla morte del fratello ragazzino. A un certo punto della sua adolescenza negli Stati Uniti, la donna si imbatte nellesperienza propria di ogni rifugiato: scoprire di non possedere niente, se non le storie, raccontate dai genitori o serbate nel proprio personale ricordo, che mostrano limpossibilità di voltare le spalle al passato, alle persone e alle cose del vecchio mondo perduto. Come «indumenti abbandonati dai fantasmi», esse riaffiorano inevitabilmente. Limpossibilità delloblio che, come un macigno, pesa sulla necessaria ricerca di nuove identità ed appartenenze attraversa da cima a fondo tutte le storie narrate in questo libro. Dal giovane Liem che non riesce piú a riconoscere sé stesso nellistante in cui apprende davvero che cosa significa a San Francisco dire di due maschi che sono una coppia «in senso romantico»; alla proprietaria del New Saigon Market che nella sua bottega, uno dei pochi posti a San Jose dove i vietnamiti possono acquistare il riso al gelsomino e lanice stellato, vede riapparire i fantasmi della guerra nella persona della signora Hoa, ossessionata dallidea della vendetta nei confronti dei comunisti che le hanno ucciso il figlio; a James Carver, nero cresciuto in Alabama, che a Quàng Tr_, in Vietnam, scopre di aver generato una figlia fuori posto in «un mondo deciso ad assegnare a ciascuno il posto che gli spetta», linquieta ricerca di una nuova identità da parte di uomini con «due facce e due menti diverse», già oggetto delle pagine de Il simpatizzante, riemerge con chiarezza in questopera. «Libro importante di un grande scrittore con una conoscenza diretta del dramma dei diritti umani esploso sulla scena internazionale» (Washington Post), I rifugiati, accolto al suo apparire negli Stati Uniti da un grande successo di pubblico e di critica, costituisce una splendida conferma del talento di Viet Thanh Nguyen nel descrivere la complessa esistenza del «popolo nuovo» sorto dalle grandi migrazioni in atto nel mondo contemporaneo. «Storie degne di ammirazione non soltanto perché capaci di descrivere il trauma della migrazione forzata, ma anche perché affrontano i grandi temi dellidentità, della complessità dellamore e della sessualità, del disagio di vivere Nguyen scrive con una poesia unica». Financial Times Storie di persone in bilico tra una patria devasta e un ricco paese d''adozione... Un libro bello e straziante Joyce Carol Oates, New Yorker

Der Sympathisant : Roman

release date: Aug 14, 2017
Der Sympathisant : Roman
Im Jahr 1975 werden Offiziere aus Süd-Vietnam in die USA ausgeflogen. Unter ihnen befindet sich auch ein kommunistischer Spion, der die Gruppe weiterhin überwachen soll. Dieser hadert jedoch bald mit seinem Doppelleben und gerät in einen Identitätskonflikt.

O simpatizante

release date: May 19, 2017
O simpatizante
Neste brilhante thriller de espionagem, Viet Thanh Nguyen nos coloca na mente de um agente duplo, um homem cujos nobres ideais o farão trair até as pessoas mais próximas. Romance vencedor do prêmio Pulitzer, O simpatizante deu origem à série original da HBO, disponível na Max. Eleito um dos melhores livros do século XXI pelo The New York Times. 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.

El simpatitzant

release date: Apr 05, 2017
El simpatitzant
Una novel·la d''espies trepidant guanyadora del Premi Pulitzer 2016. Comparada per la crítica a les novel·les de Graham Greene, Denis Johnson i George Orwell, El simpatitzant és una novel·la d''espies apassionant que explora la identitat i els Estats Units, i una poderosa història d''amor i amistat. El narrador és un agent doble dividit entre les seves lleialtats. Meitat francès i meitat vietnamita, un "home de dues ments", és un capità de l''exèrcit que aconsegueix fugir als EUA després de la caiguda de Saigon, però mentre intenta construir una nova vida amb altres refugiats vietnamites a L.A., secretament segueix informant els seus superiors comunistes al Vietnam. El simpatitzant examina el llegat de la guerra del Vietnam en la literatura, el cinema i les guerres actuals. Amb la col.laboració de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Cultura.

El simpatizante

release date: Apr 04, 2017
El simpatizante
PREMIO PULITZER DE FICCIÓN 2016 Una brillante novela de espías, un thriller político que ofrece un punto de vista inédito de la guerra de Vietnam. Abril de 1975, Saigón está sumida en el caos. Desde su mansión, el general del ejército de Vietnam del Sur bebe whisky norteamericano mientras los disparos suenan cada vez más cerca y, con la ayuda de un capitán de su máxima confianza, prepara una lista con los nombres de aquellos que recibirán un billete para los últimos aviones que salen del país. El general y sus compatriotas en breve comenzarán una nueva vida en Los Ángeles sin sospechar que uno de ellos, el capitán, observará en secreto e informará sobre las actividades del grupo a un superior del Viet Cong. En esta extraordinaria novela, Viet Thanh Nguyen nos introduce en la mente de este agente doble, un hombre cuyos nobles ideales le exigirán que traicione a su gente más cercana. Una novela de espías que atrapa al lector, una audaz exploración del extremismo político y una conmovedora historia de amor. El simpatizante recorre una vida entre dos mundos y analiza el legado de la guerra de Vietnam en la literatura y el cine, así como las guerras que emprendemos en el presente.

The Refugees

release date: Feb 07, 2017
The Refugees
“Beautiful and heartrending” fiction set in Vietnam and America from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer (Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker) In these powerful stories, written over a period of twenty years and set in both Vietnam and America, Viet Thanh Nguyen paints a vivid portrait of the experiences of people leading lives between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. This incisive collection by the National Book Award finalist and celebrated author of The Committed gives voice to the hopes and expectations of people making life-changing decisions to leave one country for another, and the rifts in identity, loyalties, romantic relationships, and family that accompany relocation. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her with a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of migration. “Terrific.” —Chicago Tribune “An important and incisive book.” —The Washington Post “An urgent, wonderful collection.” —NPR

Sympatizant

release date: Jan 01, 2017
Sympatizant
Politický thriller oceněný Pulitzerovou cenou 2016. Jsem špión. Člověk dvou tváří. Proto asi nikoho nepřekvapí, že i mysl mám dvojitou. V románu Sympatizant sledujeme osudy dvojitého agenta sloužícího rozvědce socialistického vietnamského státu i tajné službě jihovietnamského režimu, s jejímiž exponenty se po pádu Saigonu vydá do amerického exilu. Kniha citlivě vnímá nejen politické intriky na vysoké úrovni, ale i jejich dopad na lidské osudy, ať už jde o celý národ nebo jednotlivce vtažené bez své vůle do víru událostí. Snaží se zachovávat objektivní pohled bez předpojatosti vůči jedné či druhé straně, tento pohled však ani náhodou není nezúčastněný.

Il Simpatizzante

release date: Nov 25, 2016
Il Simpatizzante
È il mese di aprile del 1975 a Saigon. Il mese nel quale la guerra che va avanti da tempo immemorabile ha cominciato ormai a perdere i pezzi. In una villa dalle mura ricoperte di cocci di vetro e di filo spinato arrugginito, il generale capo della Polizia Nazionale del Vietnam del Sud, colto da improvvisa insonnia, vaga tra le stanze con la faccia di un pallore verdognolo. Il fronte settentrionale ha ceduto dinanzi allavanzata dei Vietcong, gli aerei americani decollano giorno e notte con a bordo donne, bambini e orfani, e lordine ufficiale di evacuazione tarda a venire soltanto per evitare la rivolta in città. A bordo di un C-130, con un volo coperto, il Generale si appresta a raggiungere gli Stati Uniti con la famiglia e parte dei suoi uomini. Ufficiale magro dal portamento impeccabile, il Generale crede in Dio, nella moglie, nei figli, nei francesi, negli americani e nellassoluta fedeltà del suo uomo di fiducia, il solo tra i suoi sottoposti ad abitare a casa sua: il Capitano. Non sa che il Capitano è, in realtà, una spia, un dormiente, un uomo con due facce che fotografa in gran segreto ogni rapporto e dispaccio e li invia a Man, suo addestratore tra le fila Vietcong. Figlio illegittimo di una vietnamita e di un prete cattolico francese, il Capitano ha studiato in un piccolo college della California meridionale, spedito da quelle parti da Man con una borsa di studio e il compito di apprendere la «mentalità degli Stati Uniti», un paese che, ai suoi occhi, si rivela subito cosí scioccamente narcisista da definire tutto «super» (i supermercati, le superstrade, Superman, il Super Bowl ecc.). Animato da unautentica fede nel comunismo, rientrato in patria, ha sostenuto con tale rigore la sua parte di agente doppogiochista da risultare insospettabile agli occhi di tutti, anche a quelli di Bon, lamico di lunga data che è entrato a far parte del famigerato «Phoenix Program» della CIA. In una Saigon in preda alla confusione, al caos e al terrore, il Capitano, il Generale e un nutrito gruppo di fuggiaschi scappano sotto la tempesta di fuoco dei Vietcong, tra una pioggia di razzi e granate che lasciano sulla pista dellaeroporto della città i corpi inerti di moglie e figlio di Bon. Una volta a Los Angeles, nella città del futile mondo del cinema, gli orrori della guerra sembrano lontani. Ma un dilemma atroce attende il Capitano: seguire «le cose che contano», come lideologia e il credo politico, oppure lasciare prevalere le «illusioni della giovinezza», salvando la vita a Bon, lamico con cui ha sigillato un patto di sangue durante ladolescenza? Romanzo che offre il ritratto impareggiabile di un «uomo con due menti diverse», di un «rivoluzionario» che dinanzi al terribile esito dei suoi ideali non cessa per questo di «scrutare loscurità con pensieri scandalosi, speranze eccessive e sogni proibiti», Il simpatizzante ha riscosso, al suo apparire negli Stati Uniti, lentusiasmo di critica e pubblico, vincendo il Premio Pulitzer 2016 per la narrativa e figurando come «libro dellanno» sul New York Times e i maggiori organi di stampa internazionali. «Il simpatizzante non è soltanto un magistrale romanzo di spionaggio, ma unopera che annuncia la nuova letteratura americana del XXI secolo». BookReporter «Un personaggio memorabile con cuore e mente profondamente divisi. La mirabile descrizione che Nguyen avanza della personalità ambivalente del suo eroe ne fa uno scrittore degno di maestri quali Conrad, Greene e le Carré». New York Times «Abbiamo atteso a lungo il grande romanzo sulla guerra del Vietnam, e ora eccolo, è arrivato». Vietnam Veterans of America
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