Ken
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
Not only am I impressed by your critical perspective on both sides of VN-US war in The Sympathizer, I totally get interested in your statements about VN-US hybridity from your essays and interviews. What do you think about the visibility of contemporary VN-US culture today and maybe in the future without regard to war? -All the best and admiration from a VN student in Germany, who's already ordered your upcoming book
Viet Thanh Nguyen
you can see some of the exchanges happening between US and VN with food and travel (regardless of language). With language taken into account, there is some exchange in music and film, but it's all in Vietnamese, or else it's an American impact on Vietnam. Then there's education, with tens of thousands of Vietnamese students studying in the US. I hope they will have a significant impact on Vietnam when they return.
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Rory
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
Your book reminded me why I liked books, at a time of great drought of the soul. You write with passion about the driest topics, and your stories are impossible not to relate to on a human as well as an intellectual level. As an aspiring and practicing writer; if I could one day harness the capacity to put my raw thoughts to paper as powerfully and elegantly as you do, I'll call my life well-lived. When did you start?
Steve
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
Have you ever visited Lowell, Massachusetts where there's a large Vietnamese population? I've recently read your book and, in growing up in a town near Lowell, and have memories from my early years when the first large influx of Vietnamese immigrants started to migrate to Lowell; your novel has put some of these memories in a different perspective! Steve
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