BooksBooks: Viet Thanh Nguyen writes from the in-between
Celebrated in the West, Pulitzer Prize winner remains unpublished in Vietnam
The lectures collected in Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new book, "To Save and Destroy," are structured around intimate insights drawn from Nguyen’s unique biography. © Getty Images
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.