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Viet Thanh Nguyen on redefining what it means to be a refugee

Bookends with Mattea Roach
Bookends with Mattea Roach
Episode • Oct 15, 2023 • 52m
Viet Thanh Nguyen's 2016 novel, The Sympathizer, tells the story of a Communist Party spy who escapes Saigon and goes to California, where he leads a double life as an intimate of a former South Vietnamese general. It won the Pulitzer Prize and was on more than 30 'best book of the year' lists. Nguyen's new title is an unconventional memoir called A Man of Two Faces. *This interview originally aired Oct. 2, 2016.

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