It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a
general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of
his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage
aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots
start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the
captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the
Viet Cong. The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man
brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who
went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the
Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme
politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life
between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature,
film, and the wars we fight today.
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