Books: Viet Thanh Nguyen writes from the in-between

Celebrated in the West, Pulitzer Prize winner remains unpublished in Vietnam

JOHN KRICH

The prolific author Viet Thanh Nguyen won a Pulitzer Prize in the U.S. for his first novel, "The Sympathizer," and may be the world's best-known Vietnamese author. Yet he is all but unread in Vietnam, his native land, which he has not visited for a decade.

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