![]() ![]() ![]() The last quarter of the book is an extended depiction of torture. (I read it for my book group, which is why I didn’t toss it aside a couple of chapters in.) For one thing, there are no quotation marks, an affectation I find extremely annoying. ![]() But I found it a real slog to get through. I can appreciate the fact that The Sympathizer is an important book, a worthy examination of the Vietnam war and its aftermath. However, my friend Vallery, who didn’t care for it either, convinced me to write it up anyway. The reason is not because I had no opinions about it-I did-but I worried that my dislike for a book which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and was named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, meant that I was somehow not intelligent enough to appreciate it. Full disclosure: after finishing The Sympathizer, I decided not to review it. ![]()
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