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The series is based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The Captain is a spy for North Vietnam who comes to Los Angeles and finds himself with conflicted loyalties ...
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 acclaim from critics. [ 7] It was named on more than 30 best book of the year lists and a New York Times Editor's Choice.
Nguyen was born in Ban Mê Thuột, South Vietnam in 1971. [18] He was the son of Linda Thanh Nguyen and Joseph Thanh Nguyen, [19] refugees from North Vietnam who had moved south in 1954. [20] [21] Nguyen's mother's real name is Nguyễn Thị Bảy; she is a highly influential person in his life.
Nguyễn Chí Thanh was born on January 1, 1914, [4] in the village of Quảng Điền in Thừa Thiên province. Thanh was son of Nguyễn Hán and Trần Thị Thiển, the sixth of 11 children. He grew up in a middle-class family, and was well educated. At the age of 14, his father died, and his family became poor. Thanh then went to work as ...
Yến: 燕. In Vietnamese culture, women keep their family names once they marry, whilst the progeny tend to have the father's family name, although names can often be combined from a father's and mother's family name, e.g. Nguyễn Lê, Phạm Vũ, Kim Lý etc. In formal contexts, people are referred to by their full name.
(Corrects number of existing rail connections to two from three in paragraph 2) By Phuong Nguyen and Francesco Guarascio. HANOI (Reuters) -Rail links will be high on the agenda when Vietnam's ...
t. e. Phanxicô Xaviê Nguyễn Văn Thuận, also known as Francis-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận ( pronounced [ŋʷjə̌ˀn van tʰwə̂ˀn] ⓘ; 17 April 1928 – 16 September 2002), was a Vietnamese cardinal in the Catholic Church. He was a nephew of South Vietnam 's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, and of Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục ...
Huế ( Vietnamese: [hwě] ⓘ) is the capital of Thừa Thiên Huế province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam, located near the center of Vietnam. The original site was a Cham city known as Kandarpapura and later as Amarendrapura and was the capital of the Champa Kingdom from 192 to 605. Following the conquest of city in 1307 by ...