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Flyktingar

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Pocket, Svenska, 2020

89 kr

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»Novellerna i Flyktingar är så perfekt skrivna att det är bäst att förbjuda boken på skrivarkurser annars kommer eleverna att drabbas av kollektiv depression och ta jobb på reklambyrå.« Mikael Timm i P1

»Det känns som att det är första gången jag verkligen börjar förstå hur det känns att inte höra hemma någonstans. Många har skrivit om kriget och migrationen, men här möter vi människor och delar deras vilsenhet, deras hemlängtan och drömmar om det nya livet som väntar.« Ulla Strängberg i Jönköpings-Posten

Till alla flyktingar överallt -- så inleder Viet Thanh Nguyen sin novellsamling Flyktingar. I åtta berättelser skildrar han människor som står med fötterna i två världar, med dubbla identiteter och vacklande lojaliteter. Några har kommit med båt från Vietnam till USA och försöker navigera mellan det nya och det gamla landets förväntningar på dem. Andra har blivit kvar, med en stark längtan efter ett liv på andra sidan havet. Några ser framat, andra bakåt -- och alla har de sina drömmar.

Viet Thanh Nguyen, själv flykting från Vietnam, följer upp den Pultizerprisvinnande romanen Sympatisören med en novellsamling som hyllats av en unison amerikansk kritikerkår. Med ett kristallklart språk fullt av skarpsynta betraktelser undersöker han i sina berättelser migrationens och krigets påverkan på den enskilda människan.

Viet Thanh Nguyen föddes 1971 i Vietnam men växte upp i USA, dit han som fyraåring flydde tillsammans med sina föräldrar. Han är professor i Ethnic studies vid University of Southern California och nyutsedd hedersdoktor vid Uppsala universitet. Nguyen medverkar regelbundet som krönikör i New York Times och Los Angeles Times, där han gjort sig ett namn som en radikal röst i bland annat flyktingfrågan. Hans debutroman Sympatisören fick ett enormt genomslag när den gavs ut i USA och fick ta emot en lång rad utmärkelser, däribland det prestigefyllda Pulitzerpriset 2016. Boken togs emot som ett hett efterlängtat vietnamesiskt perspektiv på Vietnamkriget. Nguyen skriver just nu på en uppföljare till den boken.

Hans Berggren är översättare från engelska och portugisiska. Han har tidigare översatt bland andra Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie och José Saramago.

»Viet Thanh Nguyen är en av våra främsta migrationsskildrare.« Joyce Carol Oates

»En superb samling.« New York Times Book Review

»Med udda vinklingar och stark närvaro skapar Viet Thanh Nguyen plats för frågorna om identitet, ställda på ett sätt som ger känslan av att vi alla är flyktingar. Djupast sett.« Maria Schottenius i Dagens Nyheter

»Jag tycker [ ] att han talar klarspråk, utan att ursäkta sig eller kompromissa litterärt. Att läsa Hans Berggrens översättning är en ren njutning. Mellan rivstarter och stundom prydliga punchlines till slut bärs dessa berättelser om flykt och identitet fram på en tät men enkel prosa, en sådan där man till synes motståndslöst glider in i de stora frågorna.« Viktoria Jäderling i Aftonbladet

»I en tid med frågor om autofiktion, autenticitet och kulturell appropriering ständigt på agendan tycks det mig upplyftande med en författare som så uppenbart bottnar existentiellt, kulturellt, intellektuellt och emotionellt i vad han beskriver och precis just därför kan tillåta sig att vara motsägelsefull, dikta fritt och tala bredvid sig själv.« Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson i Göteborgs-Posten

»Man kan läsa Flyktingar som flykting själv, för identifikation och insikt om hur andra hanterat omställningen. Man kan läsa den som infödd svensk, för att bättre förstå alla människor som har kommit till vårt land och vilka erfarenheter som har präglat dem. Och man kan läsa Flyktingar utan att ens vara intresserad av dessa specifika erfarenheter, ty framför allt berättar novellsamlingen om människor och alla de tankar och känslor som vi delar oavsett var i världen vi bor och oavsett om vi rest över hela planeten eller blivit kvar i hembyn.« Kristian Ekenberg i Gävle Dagblad

Sympathizer

Now a Sky Exclusive limited series

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

142 kr

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*** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016***WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL 2016WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION 2016'A fierce novel written in a refreshingly high style and charged with intelligent rage' Financial TimesIt is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong. The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.'A bold, artful and globally minded reimagining of the Vietnam war . . . The Sympathizer is an excellent literary novel, and one that ends, with unsettling present-day resonance, in a refugee boat where opposing ideas about intentions, actions and their consequences take stark and resilient human form' the Guardian'Beautifully written and meaty'Claire Messud'[A] remarkable debut novel . . . In its final chapters, The Sympathizer becomes an absurdist tour de force that might have been written by a Kafka or Genet'New York Times'This debut is a page-turner (read: everybody will finish) that makes you reconsider the Vietnam War ... Nguyen's darkly comic novel offers a point of view about American culture that we've rarely seen'Oprah.com (Oprah's Book Club Suggestions)

Del 40 - Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

To Save and to Destroy

Writing as an Other

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

282 kr

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Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity.Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would soon move to San Jose, California, where the author grew up, attending UC Berkeley in the aftermath of the shocking murder of Vincent Chin, which shaped the political sensibilities of a new generation of Asian Americans.The essays here, delivered originally as the prestigious Norton Lectures, proffer a new answer to a classic literary question: What does the outsider mean to literary writing? Over the course of six captivating and moving chapters, Nguyen explores the idea of being an outsider through lenses that are, by turns, literary, historical, political, and familial.Each piece moves between writers who influenced Nguyen’s craft and weaves in the haunting story of his late mother’s mental illness. Nguyen unfolds the novels and nonfiction of Herman Melville, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, William Carlos Williams, and Maxine Hong Kingston, until aesthetic theories give way to pressing concerns raised by war and politics. What is a writer’s responsibility in a time of violence? Should we celebrate fiction that gives voice to the voiceless—or do we confront the forces that render millions voiceless in the first place? What are the burdens and pleasures of the “minor” writer in any society? Unsatisfied with the modest inclusion accorded to “model minorities” such as Asian Americans, Nguyen sets the agenda for a more radical and disquieting solidarity with those whose lives have been devastated by imperialism and forever wars.

Man of Two Faces

A Memoir, a History, a Memorial

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

229 kr

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Best American Short Stories 2026

AvViet Thanh Nguyen,Nicole A. Lamy

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

180 kr

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A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestseller Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer.The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respected—and most popular—of its kind.Viet Thanh Nguyen—Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Sympathizer—selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published this year.

The Best American Short Stories 2026

AvViet Thanh Nguyen,Nicole A. Lamy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

378 kr

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Race and Resistance

Literature and Politics in Asian America

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

2 408 kr

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Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America examines the idealisation of Asian America by its intellectuals, the saturation of Asian America with capitalist practices, and the challenges posed by Asian America's ideological diversity. Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture, and politics, and he makes his case through the example of literature, which still remains a critical arena of cultural production for Asian Americans. Significantly, in examining Asian American literature, what we find is that the literature embodies the complexities, conflicts, and potential future options of Asian American culture.

Race and Resistance

Literature and Politics in Asian America

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

734 kr

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Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America examines the idealisation of Asian America by its intellectuals, the saturation of Asian America with capitalist practices, and the challenges posed by Asian America's ideological diversity. Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture, and politics, and he makes his case through the example of literature, which still remains a cultural arena of cultural production for Asian Americans. Significantly, in examining Asian American literature, what we find is that the literature embodies the complexities, conflicts, and potential future options of Asian American culture.

Del 8 - Critical Refugee Studies

Cleaving

Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora

AvIsabelle Thuy Pelaud,Lan Duongm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

207 kr

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The first and only book to gather the voices and perspectives of Vietnamese diasporic authors from across the globe. Edited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan P. Duong, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Cleaving brings together Vietnamese artists and writers from around the world in conversation about their craft and how their work has been shaped and received by mainstream culture and their own communities. This collection highlights how Vietnamese diasporic writers speak about having been cleaved—a condition in which they have been separated from, yet still hew to, the country that they have left behind. Composed of eighteen dialogues among thirty-seven writers from France, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Canada, Australia, Israel, and the United States, the book expands on the many lives that Vietnamese writers inhabit. The dialogues touch on family history, legacies of colonialism and militarism, and the writers' own artistic and literary achievements. Taken together, these conversations insist on a deeper reckoning with the conditions of displacement. Featured writers: Hoai Huong Aubert-Nguyen, Amy Quan Barry, Doan Bui, Thi Bui, Lan Cao, Cathy Linh Che, André Dao, Duy Đoàn, Lan P. Duong, Dương Vân Mai Elliott, Le Ly Hayslip, Matt Huynh, Violet Kupersmith, Thanhhà Lại, Vincent Lam, T.K. Lê, Tracey Lien, Marcelino Trương Lực , Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Anna Möi, Beth (Bich) Minh Nguyen, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Hoa Nguyen, Philip Nguyễn, Thảo Nguyễn, Vaan Nguyen, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Andrew X. Pham, Aimee Phan, Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood, Bao Phi, Dao Strom, Kim Thúy, Paul Tran, Monique Truong, Minh Huynh Vu, Ocean Vuong

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Del 8 - Critical Refugee Studies

Cleaving

Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora

AvIsabelle Thuy Pelaud,Lan Duongm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

191 kr

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Nguyen, V: Nothing Ever Dies

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

279 kr

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Nothing Ever Dies

Vietnam and the Memory of War

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

189 kr

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Finalist, National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist, National Book Award in NonfictionA New York Times Book Review “The Year in Reading” SelectionAll wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War—a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both nations.“[A] gorgeous, multifaceted examination of the war Americans call the Vietnam War—and which Vietnamese call the American War…As a writer, [Nguyen] brings every conceivable gift—wisdom, wit, compassion, curiosity—to the impossible yet crucial work of arriving at what he calls ‘a just memory’ of this war.”—Kate Tuttle, Los Angeles Times“In Nothing Ever Dies, his unusually thoughtful consideration of war, self-deception and forgiveness, Viet Thanh Nguyen penetrates deeply into memories of the Vietnamese war…[An] important book, which hits hard at self-serving myths.”—Jonathan Mirsky, Literary Review“Ultimately, Nguyen’s lucid, arresting, and richly sourced inquiry, in the mode of Susan Sontag and W. G. Sebald, is a call for true and just stories of war and its perpetual legacy.”—Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)

Del 1 - Sympathizer

Sympathizer

A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

208 kr

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Refugees

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

167 kr

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From the author of The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Refugees is the second piece of fiction from a powerful voice in American letters, praised as “beautiful and heartrending” (Joyce Carol Oates, New Yorker), “terrific” (Chicago Tribune), and “an important and incisive book” (Washington Post).Published in hardcover to astounding acclaim, The Refugees is the remarkable debut collection of short stories by Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Sympathizer. In these powerful stories, written over a period of twenty years and set in both Vietnam and America, Nguyen paints a vivid portrait of the experiences of people leading lives between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth.With the same incisiveness as in The Sympathizer, in The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to the hopes and expectations of people making life-changing decisions to leave one country for another, and the rifts in identity, loyalties, romantic relationships, and family that accompany relocation. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of migration.The second work of fiction by a major new voice in American letters, The Refugees is a beautifully written and sharply observed book about the aspirations of those who leave one country for another, and the relationships and desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives.

Del 2 - The Sympathizer

Committed

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

349 kr

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Committed

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

204 kr

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Man of Two Faces

A Memoir, a History, a Memorial

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

337 kr

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Transpacific Studies

Framing an Emerging Field

AvJanet Hoskins,Viet Thanh Nguyenm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

615 kr

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The Pacific has long been a space of conquest, exploration, fantasy, and resistance. Pacific Islanders had established civilisations and cultures of travel well before European explorers arrived, initiating centuries of upheaval and transformation. The twentieth century, with its various wars fought in and over the Pacific, is only the most recent era to witness military strife and economic competition. While “Asia Pacific” and “Pacific Rim” were late twentieth-century terms that dealt with the importance of the Pacific to the economic, political, and cultural arrangements that span Asia and the Americas, a new term has arisen—the transpacific. In the twenty-first century, U.S. efforts to dominate the ocean are symbolized not only in the “Pacific pivot” of American policy but also the development of a Transpacific Partnership. This partnership brings together a dozen countries—not including China—in a trade pact whose aim is to cement U.S. influence. That pact signals how the transpacific, up to now an academic term, has reached mass consciousness.Recognising the increasing importance of the transpacific as a word and concept, this anthology proposes a framework for transpacific studies that examines the flows of culture, capital, ideas, and labour across the Pacific. These flows involve Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific Islands. The introduction to the anthology by its editors, Janet Hoskins and Viet Thanh Nguyen, consider the advantages and limitations of models found in Asian studies, American studies, and Asian American studies for dealing with these flows. The editors argue that transpacific studies can draw from all three in order to provide a critical model for considering the geopolitical struggle over the Pacific, with its attendant possibilities for inequality and exploitation. Transpacific studies also sheds light on the cultural and political movements, artistic works, and ideas that have arisen to contest state, corporate, and military ambitions. In sum, the transpacific as a concept illuminates how flows across the Pacific can be harnessed for purposes of both domination and resistance.The anthology’s contributors include geographers (Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Weiqiang Lin), sociologists (Yen Le Espiritu, Hung Cam Thai), literary critics (John Carlos Rowe, J. Francisco Benitez, Yunte Huang, Viet Thanh Nguyen), and anthropologists (Xiang Biao, Heonik Kwon, Nancy Lutkehaus, Janet Hoskins), as well as a historian (Laurie J. Sears), and a film scholar (Akira Lippit). Together these contributors demonstrate how a transpacific model can be deployed across multiple disciplines and from varied locations, with scholars working from the United States, Singapore, Japan and England. Topics include the Cold War, the Chinese state, U.S. imperialism, diasporic and refugee cultures and economies, national cinemas, transpacific art, and the view of the transpacific from Asia. These varied topics are a result of the anthology’s purpose in bringing scholars into conversation and illuminating how location influences the perception of the transpacific. But regardless of the individual view, what the essays gathered here collectively demonstrate is the energy, excitement, and insight that can be generated from within a transpacific framework.

Committed

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

230 kr

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'Call The Committed many things. A white hot literary thriller disguised as a searing novel of ideas. An unflinching look at redemption and damnation. An unblinking examination of the dangers of belief, and the need to believe. A sequel that goes toe to toe with the original then surpasses it. A masterwork' Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven KillingsThe long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, and struggling to assimilate into a dominant culture, the Sympathizer is both charmed and disturbed by Paris. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals and politicians who frequent dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese "aunt," he finds not just stimulation for his mind but also customers for his merchandise - but the new life he is making has dangers he has not foreseen, from the oppression of the state, to the self-torture of addiction, to the seemingly unresolvable paradox of how he can reunite his two closest friends, men whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition.Both literary thriller and brilliant novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen's position in the firmament of American letters.'Here it is, with perfect timing, a novel that anyone who is part of a colonising or colonised nation - and that includes, of course, America - should read . . . Nguyen is a craftsman . . . And then there's the sharp humour . . . Like The Sympathizer, it amounts to much more than the sum of its parts. These two novels constitute a powerful challenge to an enduring narrative of colonialism and neo-colonialism. One waits to see what Nguyen, and the man of two faces, will do next' the Guardian'If The Sympathizer was ostensibly a spy novel, then The Committed is a gangland thriller . . . Two contemporary classics for your bedside table' The Telegraph, five star review

Committed

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

125 kr

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'A voice that shakes the walls of the old literary comfort zone' New Yorker 'Goes toe to toe with the original then surpasses it. A masterwork' Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of a Brief History of Seven Killings'Fierce and unrelentingly good. Hilarious and subversive' Tommy Orange, New York Times bestselling author of There There------------------------------------It's the early 1980s and the Sympathizer arrives in Paris. As a refugee, he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their turbulent pasts by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, the Sympathizer is both charmed and disturbed by Paris. Falling in with left-wing intellectuals and politicians at dinner parties held by his French Vietnamese "aunt", he finds customers for his merchandise as well as stimulation for his mind. But this new life he's living has unforeseen dangers of oppression, addiction and the seemingly unresolvable paradox of reuniting his two closest friends, men whose world views stand them poles apart.The highly suspenseful sequel to The Sympathizer, both literary thriller and brilliant novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen's position in the firmament of American letters.

Refugees

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

137 kr

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In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration. The second piece of fiction by a major new voice, The Refugees is a beautifully written and sharply observed book about the aspirations of those who leave one country for another, and the relationships and desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives.

Man of Two Faces

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2024

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

245 kr

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024'A triumphant memoir' Cathy Park Hong, author of MINOR FEELINGS, finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeThe highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwideWith insight, humour, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son.At the age of four, Nguyen and his family are forced to flee his hometown of Ban Mê Thu?t and come to the USA as refugees. After being removed from his brother and parents and homed with a family on his own, Nguyen is later allowed to resettle into his own family in suburban San José. But there is violence hidden behind the sunny façade of what he calls AMERICA™. One Christmas Eve, when Nguyen is nine, while watching cartoons at home, he learns that his parents have been shot while working at their grocery store, the SàiGòn M?i, a place where he sometimes helps price tins of fruit with a sticker gun. Years later, as a teenager, the blood-stirring drama of the films of the Vietnam War such as Apocalypse Now throw Nguyen into an existential crisis: how can he be both American and Vietnamese, both the killer and the person being killed? When he learns about an adopted sister who has stayed back in Vietnam, and ultimately visits her, he grows to understand just how much his parents have left behind. And as his parents age, he worries increasingly about their comfort and care, and realizes that some of their older wounds are reopening.Resonant in its emotions and clear in its thinking about cultural power, A Man of Two Faces explores the necessity of both forgetting and of memory, the promises America so readily makes and breaks, and the exceptional life story of one of the most original and important writers working today.

Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

AvViet Thanh Nguyen,Dave Eggersm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

356 kr

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Fight of the Century

Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

AvViet Thanh Nguyen,Jacqueline woodsonm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

283 kr

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The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

Maxine Hong Kingston

The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Hawai'i One Summer, Other Writings (LOA #355)

AvMaxine Hong Kingston,Viet Thanh Nguyen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

491 kr

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Der Sympathisant

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Häftad, Tyska, 2018

182 kr

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Flyktingar

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

Kartonnage, Svenska, 2019

280 kr

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Till alla flyktingar överallt så inleder Viet Thanh Nguyen sin novellsamling Flyktingar. I åtta berättelser skildrar han människor som står med fötterna i två världar, med dubbla identiteter och vacklande lojaliteter. Några har kommit med båt från Vietnam till USA och försöker navigera mellan det nya och det gamla landets förväntningar på dem. Andra har blivit kvar, med en stark längtan efter ett liv på andra sidan havet. Några ser framat, andra bakåt och alla har de sina drömmar.

Viet Thanh Nguyen föddes 1971 i Vietnam men växte upp i USA, dit han som fyraåring flydde tillsammans med sina föräldrar. Han är professor i Ethnic studies vid University of Southern California och nyutsedd hedersdoktor vid Uppsala universitet. Nguyen medverkar regelbundet som krönikör i New York Times och Los Angeles Times, där han gjort sig ett namn som en radikal röst i bland annat flyktingfrågan. Hans debutroman Sympatisören (Tranan 2018) fick ett enormt genomslag när den gavs ut i USA och fick ta emot en lång rad utmärkelser, däribland det prestigefyllda Pulitzerpriset 2016. Boken togs emot som ett hett efterlängtat vietnamesiskt perspektiv på Vietnamkriget. Nguyen skriver just nu på en uppföljare till den boken.

Hans Berggren är översättare från engelska och portugisiska. Han har tidigare översatt bland andra Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie och José Saramago.

"Viet Thanh Nguyen är en av våra främsta migrationsskildrare." Joyce Carol Oates

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Sympatisören

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

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Den Pulitzerbelönade romanen bakom HBO-serien The Sympathizer!

Sympatisören är en rafflande berättelse som med en stor dos satir kastar nytt ljus över ett krig som USA förvisso förlorade, men som de fram tills nu fått kontrollera berättelsen om. Viet Thanh Nguyens debutroman Sympatisören fick ett enormt genomslag när den gavs ut i USA och fick ta emot en lång rad utmärkelser, däribland det prestigefyllda Pulitzerpriset 2016. Berättelsen om den namnlöse dubbelagenten är lika mycket en spionhistoria som det är en litterär uppgörelse med Vietnamkriget, skriven med ett enormt driv och kryddad med humor och ironiska iakttagelser.

Viet Thanh Nguyen föddes 1971 i Vietnam men växte upp i USA, dit han som fyraåring flydde tillsammans med sina föräldrar. Han är professor i Ethnic studies vid University of Southern California och medverkar regelbundet som krönikör i New York Times och Los Angeles Times, där han gjort sig ett namn som en radikal röst i bland annat flyktingfrågan. Tranan har även givit ut novellsamlingen Flyktingar samt Sympatisörens fristående fortsättning De hängivna. Gemensamt för hans böcker är utforskandet av Vietnamkrigets efterverkningar. »Alla krigutkämpas två gånger«, har han skrivit, »första gången på slagfältet,andra gången i minnet.«

Hans Berggren är översättare från engelska och portugisiska. Han har tidigare översatt bland andra Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie och José Saramago.

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De hängivna

AvViet Thanh Nguyen

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I De hängivna återvänder Viet Thanh Nguyen till sin kommunistiske spion från den Pulitzerprisbelönade romanen Sympatisören. Boken är en uppföljare men kan också läsas helt fristående, genom en skicklig balansakt från en författare som med den här boken tagit ytterligare ett steg mot att bli en litterär superstjärna i USA. Nguyen har hyllats för sin unika förmåga att på ett underhållande och spänningsfyllt sätt ta sig an vår tids stora frågor om identitet och rasism i en litterär form. De hängivna utspelas i Paris i början av 80-talet, dit Nguyens berättare lyckats ta sig efter att ha blivit släppt ur det omskolningsläger där han befann sig i Sympatisören. I Paris ägnar han sig sin omskolning till trots åt kapitalismens yttersta utpost: droghandel. Han får kontakt med en grupp parisiska vänsterintellektuella som för honom innebär såväl viss intellektuell stimulans som ett bra kundunderlag. Men efter hand dras han även in i en konflikt i den undre världen, där det myllrar av hårdföra algerier, kambodjanska hallickar, vietnamesiska gangsters och andra spöken från den franska kolonialismen.

VIET THANH NGUYEN föddes 1971 i Vietnam men växte upp i USA, dit han som fyraåring flydde tillsammans med sina föräldrar. Han är professor vid University of Southern California och medverkar regelbundet som skribent i bland annat New York Times och Time Magazine, där han gjort sig ett namn som en stark röst för den asiatisk-amerikanska minoriteten i USA. 2020 utsågs han till hedersdoktor vid Uppsala universitet. Sympatisören innebar ett stort genombrott och belönades utöver Pulitzerpriset med ytterligare sju priser. Den har i dagsläget sålt över en miljon böcker och blivit tv-serie. Av Nguyen har Tranan även givit ut novellsamlingen Flyktingar. Gemensamt för hans böcker är utforskandet av Vietnamkrigets efterverkningar. »Alla krig utkämpas två gånger«, har han skrivit, »första gången på slagfältet, andra gången i minnet.«

HANS BERGGREN är översättare från engelska och portugisiska. Han har tidigare översatt bland andra Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie och Jose Saramago.