Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A remarkable debut novelPhilip Caputo New York Times Book Review cover review The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as seven other awards The Sympathizer is one of the most acclaimed books of the twentyfirst century. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Vladimir Nabokov The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator a communist double agent is a man of two minds a halfFrench halfVietnamese army captain who comes to America after the Fall of Saigon and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam. The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity and America a gripping spy novel and a powerful story of love and friendship. show more