As he grew up in America, he began to notice that most movies and books about the war focused on Americans, while the Vietnamese were silenced and erased. Nguyen and his family came to the United States as refugees during the Vietnam War in 1975. Philip Caputo explains in a New York Times review that the novel “fills a void in the literature, giving voice to the previously voiceless while it compels the rest of us to look at the events of 40 years ago in a new light.” In “The Sympathizer,” he urges readers to examine the legacy of that tumultuous time during the war and its aftermath from a new perspective. Nguyen will hold a book signing in the Grand Lobby following the talk, and his books will be available for purchase.Ī refreshing and powerful voice, Nguyen’s writing is elegant and fiercely honest. “ An Evening with Viet Thanh Nguyen” will be held in the center’s Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre, located within the Street and Davis Performance Hall at 190 Alumni Mall. to dig into how stories about Vietnam are told in America. Author Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose remarkable Pulitzer-winning debut novel “The Sympathizer” transformed the narrative of the Vietnam War, comes to the Moss Arts Center on Thursday, March 16, at 7:30 p.m.
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