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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of…
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1 author picked A Man of Two Faces as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This memoir by Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen explores the complicated position of shared and divided loyalties. The book leans into the paradoxes of the immigrant experience especially the emotionally charged position of someone born in Vietnam now living in the USA. It avoids the usual platitudes of the immigrant memoir and extends the discussion onto broader critical ideas of colonialism, resistance and identity. The writing is powerful.
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