Viet Thanh Nguyen
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2015
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Now an HBO Limited Series from Executive Producers Park Chan-wook and Robert Downey Jr., Streaming Exclusively on Max
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
One of the
New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
One
of
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Description
"The sequel to The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, The Committed follows the "man of two minds" as he comes to Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, and struggling...
4) Simone
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Seeking shelter in a high school gym when a wildfire threatens their home, budding artist Simone is changed by this experience and begins creating a piece of art with a new friend that makes her realize they can work toward a more sustainable future.
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In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and lawsuits that quickly overturned the order. But the refugee caps remained.
In The Displaced, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself...
6) The refugees
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
vii, 209 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A collection of stories, written over a twenty-year period, examines the Vietnamese experience in America as well as questions of home, family, and identity.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
viii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. Exploring how this troubled memory works in Vietnam, the United States, Laos, Cambodia, and South Korea, the book deals specifically with the Vietnam War and also war in general. He reveals how war is a part of our identity, as individuals and as citizens of nations armed to the teeth. Venturing through literature, film, monuments, memorials, museums, and landscapes...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
380 pages : illustrations, portraits (black and white) ; 24 cm
Description
"With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh 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. At the age of four, Nguyen and his family are...
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
320 pages cm
Description
"In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child--with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen"--
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
[xxiv, 305] pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays about landmark cases in the organization's one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in-Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona-need little introduction. Others you may never...
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and lawsuits that quickly overturned the order. But the refugee caps remained. In The Displaced, Pulitzer Prizewinning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself...