Book to Screen: Viet Thanh Nguyen on Adapting The Sympathizer

The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen A layered immigrant tale told in the wry, confessional voice of a man of two minds

Labeled as part espionage thriller and part cross-culture satire, The Sympathizer touches on a myriad of themes ranging from elucidating the

the grand palace Near the end of the Vietnam War, a spy who was embedded in the South Vietnam army flees to the United States and takes up residence in a refugee community,

the great mage returns after 4000 years Eventually, the Captain is tortured so much that he remembers a brief memory of his father It's the final Downey antagonist—a French priest who