<p><b>The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>The Sympathizer</i>, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide</b><br><br>With insight, humour, formal invention, and lyricism, in <i>A Man of Two Faces</i> Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son.<br><br> At the age of four, Nguyen and his family are forced to flee his hometown of Ban M¿hu?t and come to the USA as refugees. After being removed from his brother and parents and homed with a family on his own, Nguyen is later allowed to resettle into his own family in suburban San Jos¿But there is violence hidden behind the sunny fa¿e of what he calls AMERICA¿. One Christmas Eve, when Nguyen is nine
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<p>The long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers, <i>The Committed</i> follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their...
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The Refugees is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family. <br/>In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds,...
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