My Head Is Full of Books: 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction: The Sympathizer

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

2016 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction: The Sympathizer

2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

From the New York Times page announcing all the Pulitzer Prize winners of 2016:

FICTION

Viet Thanh Nguyen

“The Sympathizer” (Grove Press)

READ THE TIMES’S REVIEW »

Viet Thanh Nguyen, 45, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” which opens in 1975 in Saigon and is narrated by “the captain,” a Communist sympathizer who escapes to Los Angeles and spies on a South Vietnamese group he has infiltrated.

Part satire, part espionage thriller and part historical novel, “The Sympathizer” grew out of Mr. Nguyen’s desire to “write a novel that would allow me to explore the complexity of the Vietnam War, through all eyes;it’s meant to be entertaining and provocative.”

Finalists

“Get in Trouble,” a short story collection by Kelly Link

“Maud’s Line,” a novel by Margaret Verble

I have just added this book to my Pulitzer Challenge. Sounds like a good one.