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Now an HBO limited series from executive producers Park Chan-wook and Robert Downey Jr., streaming exclusively on Max.

Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel
Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

Named one of *The New York Times’* 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Included in *TIME’s* list of the 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time

“[A] remarkable debut novel.” — Philip Caputo, *The New York Times Book Review* (cover review)

Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, *The Sympathizer* is a stunning debut that introduces a compelling new voice in literature. At the heart of the novel is one of the most unforgettable narrators in recent fiction—an idealist and a double agent caught between two worlds in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

Hailed as a breakthrough novel, *The Sympathizer* has earned widespread acclaim, winning multiple prestigious awards. Blending the tension of a thriller with a lyrical writing style reminiscent of Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, it delivers a sweeping story of love, loyalty, and deception. The narrator, a communist spy, is “a man of two minds”—a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who flees to America after the Fall of Saigon. As he settles in Los Angeles among fellow Vietnamese refugees, he secretly sends intelligence back to his revolutionary comrades in Vietnam.

Both an intense espionage narrative and a profound meditation on identity and exile, *The Sympathizer* offers a gripping exploration of friendship, betrayal, and the complexities of the immigrant experience in America.