The Vietnamese people sneer at his heritage and refuse to accept him as one of their own, and the French do the same. His very heritage identifies him as a man caught between two worlds, born of a Vietnamese mother and a French priest who represented an attempt to colonize his homeland. Our narrator is divided between loyalty to the nationalist friends and family he spends every day with, the Communist allies he has sworn allegiance to, and in a way to the curious home he has found in the United States. A lot of that simply comes down to its narrator, a Communist spy embedded among his exiled countrymen in the United States. The Sympathizer boldly promises to redefine the way you think about the Vietnam War. “As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted participate in history could escape.”
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