Viet Thanh Nguyen A Man of Two Faces : Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2024A triumphant memoir Cathy Park Hong, author of MINOR FEELINGS, finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeThe highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwideWith insight, humour, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces 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 M Thu?t 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 Jos. But there is violence hidden behind the sunny faade of what he calls AMERICA. 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 SiGn M?i, a place where he sometimes helps price tins of fruit with a sticker gun. Years later, as a teenager, the bloodstirring 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... | Viet Thanh Nguyen A Man of Two Faces : Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for