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Viet Thanh Nguyen on redefining what it means to be a refugee
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Viet Thanh Nguyen on redefining what it means to be a refugee
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53 minutes
Released:
Oct 15, 2023
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Podcast episode
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Viet Thanh Nguyen's 2016 novel, The Sympathizer, tells the story of a Communist Party spy who escapes Saigon and goes to California, where he leads a double life as an intimate of a former South Vietnamese general. It won the Pulitzer Prize and was on more than 30 'best book of the year' lists. Nguyen's new title is an unconventional memoir called A Man of Two Faces. *This interview originally aired Oct. 2, 2016.
Released:
Oct 15, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (26)
Jesmyn Ward on exploring the stories of America's South: Jesmyn Ward's novel, Salvage the Bones, is an intimate and compelling look at Hurricane Katrina and the American South. It won the National Book award in 2011. Following the success of Salvage the Bones, Ward released her memoir, Men We Reaped, which examines her experiences with racism, the absence of her father and the death of her younger brother. Her new novel, Let Us Descend, follows an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War. *This interview originally aired on Sept. 28, 2014. by Writers and Company