The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now
sold over one million copies worldwide With insight, humor, formal
invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen
rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal
memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood,
colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his
trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep
emotional openness about his life as a father and a son. At the age
of four, Nguyen and his family are forced to flee his hometown of
Ban Mê Thuột and come to the USA as refugees. After being
removed from his brother and parents and homed with a family on his
own, Nguyen is later allowed to resettle into his own family in
suburban San José. But there is violence hidden behind the sunny
façade of what he calls AMERICATM. One Christmas Eve, when Nguyen
is nine, while watching cartoons at home, he learns that his
parents have been shot while working at their grocery store, the
Sà iGòn Mới, a place where he sometimes helps price tins of
fruit with a sticker gun. Years later, as a teenager, the
blood-stirring drama of the films of the Vietnam War such as
Apocalypse Now throw Nguyen into an existential crisis: how can he
be both American and Vietnamese, both the killer and the person
being killed? When he learns about an adopted sister who has stayed
back in Vietnam, and ultimately visits her, he grows to understand
just how much his parents have left behind. And as his parents age,
he worries increasingly about their comfort and care, and realizes
that some of their older wounds are reopening. Profound in its
emotions and brilliant in its thinking about cultural power, A Man
of Two Faces explores the necessity of both forgetting and of
memory, the promises America so readily makes and breaks, and the
exceptional life story of one of the most original and important
writers working today.
General
| Imprint: |
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| Authors: |
Viet Thanh Nguyen
|
| Pages: |
400 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8021-6050-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8021-6050-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780802160508 |
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