The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
May. 8th, 2021 05:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unspeakablehorrorAfter seeing a number of posts by tobermoriansass about the novel The Sympathizer, I decided to read this novel. It's a novel focusing on a double agent who is sent to America at the end of the Vietnam War. I'm not well immersed in the genre of spy stories, so I can't really talk about how it fits into that, but there's definitely a lot in this story that I do have thoughts on. It's a story about the aftermath of the Vietnam War that's both deeply reflective and sharply humorous. I interpret the title as both referring to the political definition of sympathizer and a sympathizer as someone who feels sympathetic towards others. This is a novel about deep human connection and about how brutal people can be to one another. I can't really write a whole lot at the moment, but I just wanted to get a few of my thoughts out.
tobermoriansass about the novel The Sympathizer, I decided to read this novel. It's a novel focusing on a double agent who is sent to America at the end of the Vietnam War. I'm not well immersed in the genre of spy stories, so I can't really talk about how it fits into that, but there's definitely a lot in this story that I do have thoughts on. It's a story about the aftermath of the Vietnam War that's both deeply reflective and sharply humorous. I interpret the title as both referring to the political definition of sympathizer and a sympathizer as someone who feels sympathetic towards others. This is a novel about deep human connection and about how brutal people can be to one another. I can't really write a whole lot at the moment, but I just wanted to get a few of my thoughts out.