Viet Thanh Nguyen Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/viet-thanh-nguyen/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:41:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Viet Thanh Nguyen Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/viet-thanh-nguyen/ 32 32 38398750 March Reading Recap https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/03/march-reading-recap-4/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/03/march-reading-recap-4/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2021 04:30:31 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15509 March was a great month for reading in that I ran from one book to another, but not so good for reviewing as my interest in writing fled in the opposite direction. Which now means I have a head full of tangled plots, character confusion, and dense clusters of missing information about what I’ve read. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/03/march-reading-recap-4/feed/ 2 15509 The Sympathizer: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/04/the-sympathizer/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/04/the-sympathizer/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2015 07:10:57 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3945 So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves with hope, and for all that we believed almost every rumor we heard, almost all of us refused to believe that our nation was dead. It is only fitting that the narrator in The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel, is never […]

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