Suchergebnisse

Introduction /Viet Thanh Nguyen --The road /Chris Abani --Last, first, middle /Joseph Azam --Common story /David Bezmozgis --Flesh and sand /Fatima Bhutto --Perspective and what gets lost /Thi Bui --How succulent food defeated Trump's wall before it has been built /Ariel Dorfman --Guests of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa /Lev Golinkin --The parent who stays /Reyna Grande --To walk in their shoes /Meron Hadero --God's fate /Aleksandar Hemon --Second country /Joseph Kertes --13 ways of being an immigrant /Porochista Khakpour --Refugees and exiles /Marina Lewycka --This is what the journey does /Maaza Mengiste --The ungrateful refugee /Dina Nayeri --Am I a refugee? /Raja Shehadeh --A refugee again /Vu Tran --New lands, new selves /Novuyo Rosa Tshuma --Refugee children : the Yang warriors /Kao Kalia Yang.

"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 of the Vietnam War, he argues that an alternative to nationalism and war exists in art, created by artists who adhere to no nation but the imagination."--Provided by publisher

Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles. A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties. 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. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.