Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel,Winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction,Winner of Center for Fiction Debut Novel Prize,Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature,Winner of the California Book Award for First FictionIt 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