{"product_id":"9781472151360","title":"The Sympathizer: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - Viet Thanh Nguyen (Paperback) 21-04-2016 Winner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2016 (UK) and Pulitzer Price for Fiction 2016 (UK). Short-listed for Edgar Best First Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Ivybridge Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Viet Thanh Nguyen \/ Fiction - Paperback \/ 21-04-2016","offer_id":54922641703292,"sku":"9781472151360","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0535\/2344\/8005\/files\/9781472151360.jpg?v=1738675160","url":"https:\/\/www.ivybridgebookshop.com\/products\/9781472151360","provider":"The Ivybridge Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}