‘The Sympathizer’ Wins Pulitzer Prize

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel, The Sympathizer , received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction yesterday. A first novel that deals with a Vietnamese communist sympathizer who moves to California in 1975, the book received sterling reviews, including one on The VVA Veteran ‘s Books in Review II page by David Willson.

“For those who have been waiting for the great Vietnamese American Vietnam War novel, this is it, ” Willson wrote, “More to the point: This is a great American Vietnam War novel.”

 

 

 

 

 

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