A man of two faces : a memoir, a history, a memorial
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New York, NY : Grove Press,an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Description
380 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Status
Park Co. Library - Nonfiction
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Subjects
Library of Congress Subjects
Authors -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Buôn Mê Thuột (Vietnam) -- Biography.
Immigrants -- California -- San Jose -- Biography.
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, -- 1971-
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, -- 1971- -- Family.
Refugees -- Vietnam -- Buôn Mê Thuột -- Biography.
San Jose (Calif.) -- Biography.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Refugees.
Vietnamese Americans -- California -- San Jose -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Buôn Mê Thuột (Vietnam) -- Biography.
Immigrants -- California -- San Jose -- Biography.
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, -- 1971-
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, -- 1971- -- Family.
Refugees -- Vietnam -- Buôn Mê Thuột -- Biography.
San Jose (Calif.) -- Biography.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Refugees.
Vietnamese Americans -- California -- San Jose -- Biography.
Other Subjects
Américains d'origine vietnamienne -- Californie -- San Jose -- Biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Écrivains -- Biographies.
Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 -- Réfugiés.
Immigrants -- Biography.
Refugees -- Biography.
Réfugiés -- Viêt-nam -- Buôn Me Thuôt -- Biographies.
San Jose (Calif.) -- Biography.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Vietnamese Americans -- Biography.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Écrivains -- Biographies.
Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 -- Réfugiés.
Immigrants -- Biography.
Refugees -- Biography.
Réfugiés -- Viêt-nam -- Buôn Me Thuôt -- Biographies.
San Jose (Calif.) -- Biography.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Vietnamese Americans -- Biography.
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Published
New York, NY : Grove Press,an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2023.
Format
Book
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-380).
Summary
"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 Thuot 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 facade of what he calls AMERICA TM. 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 SàiGòn Moi, 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"--,Provided by publisher.
Awards
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2023 longlist
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Nguyen, V. T. (2023). A man of two faces: a memoir, a history, a memorial (First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.). Grove Press,an imprint of Grove Atlantic.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-. 2023. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial. Grove Press,an imprint of Grove Atlantic.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial Grove Press,an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Nguyen, Viet Thanh. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition., Grove Press,an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2023.
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