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'The Sympathizer' Author Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer has been adapted into a series on HBO/MAX. It's set in Vietnam during the last days of the war, and in LA, just after. The narrator becomes a consultant to a Hollywood film about the war. The novel is written from a Vietnamese perspective. "It's my revenge on Francis Ford Coppola, my revenge on Hollywood, to try to get Americans to understand that Vietnam is a country and not a war," he told Terry Gross in 2016. Nguyen's family fled their village in South Vietnam in 1975, when it was taken over by the North.
Also, David Bianculli reviews Let It Be, the Beatles film restored and rereleased after being shelved for more than 50 years.
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Also, David Bianculli reviews Let It Be, the Beatles film restored and rereleased after being shelved for more than 50 years.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer has been adapted into a series on HBO/MAX. It's set in Vietnam during the last days of the war, and in LA, just after. The narrator becomes a consultant to a Hollywood film about the war. The novel is written from a Vietnamese perspective. "It's my revenge on Francis Ford Coppola, my revenge on Hollywood, to try to get Americans to understand that Vietnam is a country and not a war," he told Terry Gross in 2016. Nguyen's family fled their village in South Vietnam in 1975, when it was taken over by the North.
Also, David Bianculli reviews Let It Be, the Beatles film restored and rereleased after being shelved for more than 50 years.
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Also, David Bianculli reviews Let It Be, the Beatles film restored and rereleased after being shelved for more than 50 years.
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