2016年普利策奖获奖名单在纽约哥伦比亚大学揭晓。在文学艺术系列奖项中，越南裔作家阮越清（VietThanhNguyen）凭借长篇小说《同情者》（TheSympathizer）获得小说奖。

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《同情者》是阮越清的处女作，小说以1975年的西贡开场，讲述了个同情共产主义的人逃到洛杉矶、打入南越人团体内部从事间谍工作的故事。小说构思巧妙，节奏紧凑，充满了洞见和批判，被评论人誉为战争小说的新经典，是间谍、讽刺和历史小说的巧妙融合。甚至有评论家称，只有弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉执导的影片《现代启示录》可与之匹敌。

阮越清说，《同情者》里的特工曾在1960年代以国际交换生的身份次来到美国。这时，他对美国的爱就开始了。"他当然明白成就美国梦要面临的问题，要白手起家独自获得成功，要以全新的身份在美国重塑自己。他迷恋这些东西，同时也深深地怀疑它们。"

The Sympathizer

基本信息
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Corsair (21 April 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-13:9780802124944
Product Dimensions: 13 x 2.6 x 19.7 cm

内容简介
It 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, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.

小说以1975年的西贡开场，讲述了个同情共产主义的人逃到洛杉矶、打入南越人团体内部从事间谍工作的故事。小说构思巧妙，节奏紧凑，充满了洞见和批判，被评论人誉为战争小说的新经典，是间谍、讽刺和历史小说的巧妙融合。

媒体推荐
[A] remarkable debut novel ... His book fills a void in the literature, giving voice to the previously voiceless ... An absurdist tour de force that might have been written by a Kafka or Genet (New York Times Book Review)

Extraordinary ... Surely a new classic of war fiction ... [Nguyen] has written a cerebral thriller around a desperate expat story that confronts the existential dilemmas of our age ... I haven't read anything since Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four that illustrates so palpably how a patient tyrant, unmoored from all human constraint, can reduce a man's mind to liquid (Washington Post)

This debut is a page-turner (read: everybody will finish) that makes you reconsider the Vietnam War ... Nguyen's darkly comic novel offers a point of view about American culture that we've rarely seen (Oprah.com (Oprah's Book Club Suggestions))

The satire is delicious (New Yorker)

The Sympathizer reads as part literary historical fiction, part espionage thriller and part satire. Nguyen knows of what he writes (Los Angeles Times)

An important new perspective on the Vietnam War . . . The Sympathizer will both startle and grip you (BuzzFeed)

An early frontrunner for debut novel of the year (Flavorwire (10 Must-Read Books for April))

I cannot remember the last time I read a novel whose protagonist I liked so much. Smart, funny, and self-critical, with a keen sense of when to let a story speak for itself ... [Nguyen] proves a gifted and bold satirist (Barnes & Noble Review)

Arresting . . . One of the best pieces of fiction about the Vietnam war-and by a Vietnamese. . . . Stunning . . . Could it be that Nguyen has captured the shape of the devolution of war itself, from grand ambition to human ruin? . . . One of the finest novels of the Vietnam War published in recent years (Daily Beast)

Read this novel with care; it is easy to read, wry, ironic, wise, and captivating, but it could change not only your outlook on the Vietnam War, but your outlook on what you believe about politics and ideology in general. It does what the best of literature does, expands your consciousness beyond the limitations of your body and individual circumstances (Karl Marlantes, author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War)

关于作者

《同情者》作者阮越清
1975年，作为名越南裔美国人，年仅4岁的阮越清以难民的身份随同家人逃到美国，对于这段回忆，在接受美国国家公共电台采访时他说，"尽管我在美国长大，非常美国化，但是战争和历史的阴影直笼罩着我，因为我不断地从父母或者其他越南人那里听到关于越南战争的故事。所以，我的记忆中有持久的创伤，种战争并没有结束的感觉。家园已经失去了，但是我们仍然期待未来有天可以将它收回。"在美国期间，阮越清看了很多美国电影，特别是关于越南战争的好莱坞电影。他喜欢《滴血》中史泰龙扮演的兰博，"他在银幕上很美，开枪和展示肌肉让人愉悦。"阮越清说，"直到某刻我意识到，我也是屏幕上被杀的东亚人。""我还记得在电影院看《野战排》，越南人被杀死的时候，人们欢呼起来。我在想，这太怪异了，此刻我该认同谁呢？"

阮越清承认，方面这些电影都是伟大的艺术作品，让他很崇拜。另方面，这也让他陷入尴尬的境地，因为电影中，越南人遭到杀害。与此同时，"1980年代描述越南战争的电影将美国描述得很黑暗，但是这也意味着他们将美国作为历史的中心来讲述。"

4月19日下午，阮越清在脸书上表示，"我要感谢那些为社会正义、和平、真正的平等而持续斗争的前人们，感谢那些争取公民权利、根本权力和经济权益的每个人。没有个少数族裔作家敢说自己能独立完成任何事，那些在我们之前的集体努力和积极分子们，为我们个人的成就打下了基础。那些有幸被记住的人还有更多被遗忘的人，我们应该感激他们。"