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Viet Thanh Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt; born March 13, 1971 [a]) is a South Vietnamese-born American professor and novelist.He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
The Academy of Journalism and Communication (AJC; Vietnamese: Học viện Báo chí và Tuyên truyền) is an academy with its campus in Hanoi, Vietnam. The academy was established in 1962 and now it is under the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Public Administration. Main tasks of the academy are training bachelors and masters of ...
James Carver, a retired African-American USAF pilot during the Vietnam War, and his wife Michiko, visit their daughter Claire and her boyfriend Legaspi, a roboticist, in Quảng Trị. Carver is apathetic as he did not care much for the country during his war years which leads him to clash with Claire, a language teacher who claims she has a ...
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War is a novel by American author and decorated Marine, Karl Marlantes. It was first published by El León Literary Arts in 2009 (in small quantity) and re-issued (and slightly edited) as a major publication of Atlantic Monthly Press [ 1 ] on March 23, 2010.
Cecile Pin's debut novel, 'Wandering Souls,' injects the supernatural into the deeply grounded story of three orphaned siblings who escape Vietnam by boat.
The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese-American professor and writer Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is a best-selling novel, [6] and recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The novel received generally positive reviews from critics. [7] It was named on more than 30 best book of the year lists and a New York Times Editor's Choice ...
The Gangster We Are All Looking For is the first novel by Vietnamese-American author lê thi diem thúy, published in 2003. It was first published as a short piece in The Best American Essays of 1997 and was also awarded a Pushcart Prize “Special Mention.” [1] The novel is a fragmented sequence of events recollected by a nameless narrator.
The novel centers on the Amerasian experience – children born to Vietnamese mothers and American military fathers. Like The Mountains Sing, Dust Child has received critical acclaim and has been voted as a best book of the year/month/season by many media establishments. The Boston Globe calls it "an exquisite novel". [11]