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The Sympathiser

 

 

The Wolfson Contemporary Reading Group will next meet on Wednesday, 13 December 2016 at the usual time of 7:30pm in Plommer A. We will be discussing Viet Thanh Nguyen's debut novel, The Sympathiser, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 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.

 

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We really hope that you will join us at this last meeting of 2017 and to share in wine and mince pies. However, if you are unable to be with us, please email your comments and scores so that they can be shared with the group.

The book is available in local libraries, and in paperback and Kindle edition from Amazon* and other booksellers.

*Please remember to use the link on the Wolfson Alumni & Development website if you choose to buy from Amazon, as College will benefit from the sale: http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/alumni/amazon/